Manuscripts are movable objects and colophons normally represent the most efficient means of tracing the paths taken by a book during its (sometimes) extended life. This short article deals with an unusual case of a manuscript and of the work it contains, whose itinerant life is narrated by a long and extraordinary title that provides surprising technical details about the book form, the writing material, and the historical events surrounding it.
The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis / Buzi, Paola. - (2021), pp. 1063-1075. - STUDIES IN MANUSCRIPT CULTURES.
The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis
Paola Buzi
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2021
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Manuscripts are movable objects and colophons normally represent the most efficient means of tracing the paths taken by a book during its (sometimes) extended life. This short article deals with an unusual case of a manuscript and of the work it contains, whose itinerant life is narrated by a long and extraordinary title that provides surprising technical details about the book form, the writing material, and the historical events surrounding it.File allegati a questo prodotto
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