upennmanuscripts: Today’s #FragmentFriday is a book within a book: LJS 395, fragments from 2 l
upennmanuscripts: Today’s #FragmentFriday is a book within a book: LJS 395, fragments from 2 leaves of a 13th c. copy of an early encyclopedia in a 16th-century binding of a printed book. Many manuscripts survive to today because they were reused in bindings. #medieval #manuscript #fragment #bindingwaste #binding #13thc #bookstagram #bookhistory #librariesofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CVDXpMbtfOw/ -- source link