Nag Hammadi

As part of my pursuit to learn the historical strucutres of bookbinding, I've turned to J.A. Szirmai's book The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding. It has been described to me as being a dense read, but moving at the snail's pace that I am, it is not bad at all. As I read through each chapter I will make a model of each structure addressed. This allows me to really understand the readings with physical examples. The first structure in the book is the Nag Hamadi codex. A group of thirteen were discovered in a jar near the Egyptian village of…

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