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A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history.”—Kirkus Reviews
For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other...
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history.”—Kirkus Reviews
For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other...
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A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history.”—Kirkus Reviews
For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other...
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history.”—Kirkus Reviews
For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other...
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