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co-geeking.com
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| | | | | After the invention of the printing press, old handwritten books and documents were commonly recycled as reinforcements in new bookbindings made in the 15th through 18th centuries. Now, thanks to an x-ray technique developed in the Netherlands, these hidden manuscript fragments are readable without destroying the book they're a part of. It's all possible with... | |
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drawingmatter.org
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| | | | | Olivia Horsfall Turner, PhD, FSA, is a curator and writer. Having studied at Cambridge, Yale and University College London, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity College Dublin. Subsequently she worked as an Architectural Investigator at English Heritage and as an Historian with the Survey of London. At the V&A... Read More | |
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www.roger-pearse.com
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| | | | | I've spent the last couple of days collating manually the 1669 editio princeps d'Achery/Mabillon edition of the "Life" of St Botolph (BHL 1428) with manuscripts, first Cambr... | |
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medievalbooks.nl
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| | | Written by hand, medieval manuscripts are very different fromprinted books, which started to appear after Gutenberg's mid-fifteenth-century invention of moving type. One difference in particular is important forour understanding of manuscripts. While printed books were produced in batches of a thousand or more, handwritten copieswere madeone at the time. In fact, medieval books, especially those... | ||
