Showing The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex, 3rd Century BC - 19th Century AD The Library on Display by Arduini Arduini
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Divided into two sections - the Papyrus Collection and the Manuscript collection. This title features two intentionally striking extremes - a potsherd on which a pupil from the 2nd century BC wrote the ancient verses of one of Sappho's odes and a 19th century Japanese erotic-grotesque scroll.
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