Material Restoration: A Fragment from Eleventh-Century Echternach in a Nineteenth-Century Parisian Codex (Cursor Mundi)
Material Restoration explores an eleventh-century Echternach fragment as preserved within a nineteenth-century Parisian codex. By bringing these two historical contexts together, the book considers the material history of manuscripts, their preservation, and the ways fragments remain connected to changing books and scholarly traditions.
About This Book
Material Restoration examines a fragment associated with eleventh-century Echternach and its later preservation in a nineteenth-century Parisian codex.
The book centers on the material relationship between an earlier manuscript fragment and the later codex that contains it.
Its subject connects medieval textual heritage with the history of manuscript preservation and restoration.
Written by Carmela Vircillo Franklin, this volume will interest readers studying medieval books, manuscript history, and the afterlives of historical materials.
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