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December 23, 2025Books and Manuscripts, Documents

Found fragments

image of a manuscript fragment revealed after bookworm damage to the host volume

Before the advent of modern print production when books were hand produced, parchment from damaged or discarded manuscripts would be reused or […]

April 28, 2015April 28, 2015Collections, Equipment

Glitches and Imperfections

When we are scanning, things generally go pretty smoothly but once in a while, they don’t. Whether the imperfections are part of the object in-hand or are introduced by human or equipment error, the results can still be interesting.

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