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Codex Rossanensis
In the Museo Diocesano e del Codex at Rossano, in Calabria, behind glass kept at a strict temperature, lies a book that most visitors read past: a square volume of parchment the…
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The Book of Kells
Put your eye close to the glass and the most famous manuscript in the world turns out to be a book. The Chi Rho page of the Book of Kells, folio 34r,…
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Codex Alexandrinus
On New Year’s Day 1627 a Greek Bible was carried into the presence of King Charles I and handed over by a man who had travelled thousands of miles to give it…