Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library Medieval Money gold foil-stamped spine

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The collection consists of ninth- and tenth-century bindings of over fifty manuscripts discovered in 1910 in the Fayum Oasis in Egypt

that details the circuitous history of the collection from Egypt to New York to Rome and back to New York

he created a meticulous accounting of the binding structures

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Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library Medieval Money gold foil-stamped spineTheodore C. Petersen wrote Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1929 and 1950, but it remained unpublished until now. The seminal work describes the binding techniques and materials of a collection of early manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum. The collection consists of ninth and tenth century bindings of over fifty manuscripts discovered in 1910 in the Fayum Oasis in Egypt. The collection of Coptic manuscripts was