Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library Medieval Money but a number of preparatory

but a number of preparatory drawings and paintings provide precious information

the palazzo was bombed during World War II and its interior completely destroyed

long before the discipline was even properly established

gold foil-stamped spine

Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library Medieval Money but a number of preparatoryTheodore C. Petersen wrote Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1929 and 1950, but it remained unpublished until now.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