"I still hold that manuscript from the Scriptorium clenched...

"I still hold that manuscript from the Scriptorium clenched tight in my hand. I look down at it. A prayer book. When I crack it open, my hand lands on a page with The Burial of the Dead."
— from the novel Sinful Folk

PHOTO from: Eberbach Abbey, where the “Name of the Rose” was filmed…Side aisle by Matus Kalisky on Flickr