Cambridge University Library and Codex Zacynthius
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Field Diary of David Livingston’s the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Picture from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Scotland#/media/File:National_Library_of_Scotland,_Edinburgh.JPG The MegaVision EV Multispectral system is used in the imaging of David Livingstone material at the National Library of Scotland. Dr. David Livingstone was an African missionary, a medical doctor, explorer and advocate against the slave trade in Africa. In his final years, Dr Livingstone was reduced to writing on used newspaper…
Dime Novels at University of Rochester
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Museum of the Bible and Codex Climaci Rescriptus
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Biblioteca Nazionale Torino
Green sustainability is all the rage today, but we’ve got nothing on our fanatically recycling medieval predecessors. They carefully and page-by-page took apart books, scrubbed some pages to create clean (an ebay listing might say “gently used”) parchment for new pages in new books; other pages, perhaps not so gently used, became filler for the…