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The Proud Reader: Showing Off the Medieval Book
By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) When I started this post I set out to answer a very simple query: what is the oldest photograph we have of a real reader interacting with a medieval manuscript? The quest was sparked by a 19th-century photograph … Continue reading
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Tagged Beowulf, Codicology, Manuscript, Reading, Research Reflections, Tolkien
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