There are also accounts of the trial of the Knights Templar held at Chinon in August 1308; the 1493 papal bull that split the New World between Spain and Portugal; Leo X’s 1521 decree excommunicating Martin Luther; and letters from Elizabeth I, Voltaire, Abraham Lincoln, and, written on fragile birch bark, a group of Christian Ojibwe Indians. (Addressed to Pope Leo, or “the Great Master of Prayer, he who holds the place of Jesus,” that letter is postmarked, “where there is much grass, in the month of the flowers.”)
