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There's a national book binding competition happening at DU.
The Fifth Circuit decision holding that libraries may remove books based on the books' viewpoint may lead some to ask: Hasn't the Court resolved this ...
Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.
In the book, Framing Portraits, Binding Albums, editors Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain initiate a discourse towards this aspect of memory preservation. Family albums can not only be ...
The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval ...
Now, a copy of these rare stories has been discovered — in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register. What are we learning about the past? Here are three of our most recent eye ...
A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur sequel series. University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King ...
Instead, the team decided to preserve the fragment in situ, keeping it as an example of 16th-century archival ... such as threads used in the binding. By digitally removing the book and leaving just ...
But when researchers from the institute unfurled the volume’s binding in 2019, they were in for a surprise. Hidden within the binding was a segment of a 13th-century manuscript. What’s more ...
For example, less than 40 copies are known to exist ... tucked inside the recycled binding of a wealthy family’s property record from the 16th century. But at the time of discovery, the text ...