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Destroying Medieval Books
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medievalbooks.nl
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Thevet
on Nov 1, 2014
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tudorw
on Nov 2, 2014
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In the early seventies I used to unravel the 'pusher' from cocktail umbrellas to reveal the foreign scrap of newspaper they'd rolled up to create it, is it still done? Off to check...
whitten
on Nov 4, 2014
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I'd heard of palimpset before, but didn't realize old parchments were used to make bookbinding or ceremonial garb.
ggchappell
on Nov 2, 2014
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Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
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