They become time capsules of your memories, emotions, and descriptions of the places, people, and things you've encountered. Though we live in a digital age, there will always be something quite romantic and meditative about taking a moment to jot down your thoughts while you're on the road. She was on staff of The Bucknellian student newspaper all four years and was named editor-in-chief during her junior year. Madeline attended Bucknell University, where she studied creative writing and American history. Madeline has also been published in Apartment Therapy, The Huffington Post, and Business Insider. In addition to her work on the commerce team, she also frequently writes features, profiles, and trend pieces about the culture of travel. Madeline Diamond has been with Travel + Leisure since 2019, where she started as an Associate Digital Editor, then joined the commerce team in 2021. She brings her lifelong love of travel to her role, especially when it comes to researching and reviewing the best travel products on the market. Originally from California, she now lives in Brooklyn and can often be found in her favorite park with a cappuccino in hand.

Since both manuscripts appear to be written in CrokeвЂ™s own hand, perhaps the most likely recipient of both volumes was Prudence Croke.Madeline Diamond is an Associate Commerce Editor for Travel + Leisure, where she covers news and deals about travel products, such as luggage, fashion, and tech. Translation from Clare Costley King'oo, Miserere Mei (Notre Dame, 2012), p.

(These psalms, my wife Prudence made me translate: nor, being persuaded, am I wearied by the task, due to love of virtue). вЂHos mea me coniunx psalmos Prudentia fecit/ Vertere, nec tedet suasum virtutis amoreвЂ™.

It also includes a Latin dedication from Croke to his wife Prudence (m. This other manuscript contains an inscription stating that the translation was done by John Croke (1489-1554), a clerk in chancery to Henry VIII. The verse psalm translations in this manuscript survive in just one other copy, in a manuscript also held at the British Library (Add MS 30981). We will probably never know for sure who originally owned the Stowe girdle book, but there is one clue. Portrait miniature of Henry VIII on the Ratification of the Treaty of Ardres, 1546: Paris, Archives nationales AE/III/33, detail ( Source: MusГ©e des Archives nationales) The original owner

In 1745 Vertue described seeing in the possession of one Mr Wyatt a вЂlittle prayer book вЂ¦ set in goldвЂ™ which was given by Anne Boleyn to one of the Wyatt Family. VertueвЂ™s original notes are now preserved in the British Library. It seems that Triphook got the Anne Boleyn story from an account by the engraver and antiquary George Vertue, which Triphook cites in his notes to WyattвЂ™s biography. The manuscript was then bought in 1818/19 by the Duke of Buckingham for the Stowe Library, which eventually entered the British Library (see our Collection Guide to the Stowe Manuscripts). Triphook briefly owned the manuscript, and he described it in the notes to his edition of George WyattвЂ™s biography of Anne Boleyn (1817), and in his booksellerвЂ™s catalogue (1818). If we look back through the records, we find that the story about Anne Boleyn was first applied to this manuscript by a London bookseller and publisher named Robert Triphook (1782-1863). The most significant one concerns its source. Sadly, a closer look at the evidence reveals some major problems with this story. The girdle book, held open to the miniature portrait of Henry VIII: Stowe MS 956, f.

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