Gold glitters at this British Library exhibition

There can be few people who have ever seen a medieval Bible and not looked in awe at the rich decorations inside, but also noticed how liberally decorated they are with gold and pondered the extravagance.A new exhibition at the British Library looks at how gold was used to embellish important documents, not just in olde Christianity, but across the whole planet. Every culture valued gold and used it in important documents.
But not always how we expect.
The library has managed to pull together a