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On parchment: animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age

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ISBN	9780300260212 (hardcover)
Author	Holsinger, Bruce W.
Title	On parchment : animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age / Bruce Holsinger
Publisher	New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 2022
Physical desc.	ix, 436 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-403) and indexes.
Contents	Prologue -- Part 1: The medium and its making. The Book of the Dun cow -- Hair, flesh, sense -- Gristle, stink, skin -- The flayed folio -- Uterine vellum and the page unborn -- Questions of quantity: membrane and archival scale -- Part 2: The medium and its messages. Parchment inventions -- St. Augustine's (a)theology of parchment -- Riddled flesh -- The human book and the body of Christ -- Torah, Talmud, tefillin -- Shakespeare's parchments, in life and death -- Part 3: The medium and modernity. Biocodicology: book history and the biomolecular revolution -- Ecocodicology: or, is the book a byproduct? -- Parchment elegies -- Epilogue: Digital vellum.
Subject	Parchment -- History
	Written communication -- History
	Visual communication -- History
	Transmission of texts

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