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God’s Library
So, it has been about a year since I started this blog. At that time, I was in the midst of finishing my last revisions to the manuscript of my book, and in my first posting, I described the blog … Continue reading
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A Model of Nag Hammadi Codex III (and Some Thoughts on Large Single-quire Codices)
After I started out by making a model of Nag Hammadi Codex VI, the second Nag Hammadi book that I tried to make was Codex III. Like Codex VI, Codex III is made up of a single papyrus quire, but … Continue reading
Posted in Book binding, Book covers, Codices, Nag Hammadi
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A Model of Nag Hammadi Codex VI
As I was writing my book on early Christian manuscripts, one of the most helpful things I did was take up the construction of models of ancient codices. Going through the process of assembling a codex really forced me to … Continue reading
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A Review of Georgios Boudalis, The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity
In 2016, I gave paper that revisited the old question of the rise of the codex. There has been a lot of work done over the years on why the codex may have come to replace the roll, but there … Continue reading
Posted in Bodmer Papyri, Book binding, Codices, Nag Hammadi
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Ancient Book Covers and “Cartonnage”
As a follow-up to my last post on the development of the use of the French term “cartonnage”: It looks like it was the late 1950s when the term “cartonnage” began to be applied to the material sometimes used in … Continue reading
