Waste not, Want not: Manuscript Fragments in the Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland
Alexandra Barratt
Early binders often used medieval manuscript material as wrappers, pastedowns, quire-guards, and spine liners. A careful examination of early printed books in the Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, unearthed a number such fragments, while availability online Latin texts easy digital photography facilitated their identification, that previously known fragments. Notably, one substantial group proved to be from earliest Southern Hemisphere: Carolingian Bible. The fragments also generally confirm an international pattern: preferred manuscripts had become obsolete, particularly those newly available print.
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