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Day: October 19, 2022

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Can you tell it’s a book from the cover?

In the first week of the History of the Book methods option, students and researchers gathered in the Taylor Institute Library to explore items from the special collections that challenge the very notion of the ‘book’.  From the curious collection of printed and handwritten manuscript pages rebound in Arch.Fol.It.1478(1) where Petrarch’s ‘sonetti et cançone’ are …

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Video Update: Lena Zlock interviews Richard Ovenden about Burning the Books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUa2flpn-g8&fbclid=IwAR262eGPbvrLE8uEXLpn6hmbXp8KCMJUZO7JQLFUMeLnYQWvirYR4XQg1yQ
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