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The role of the scroll : an illustrated introduction to scrolls in the Middle Ages / Thomas Forrest Kelly.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z110.S37 K45 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Thomas Forrest, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Writing materials and instruments.
- History.
- Scrolls.
- Western Europe.
- Scrolls--Europe, Western--History.
- Writing materials and instruments--History--To 1500.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 182 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction to scrolls
- Scrolls that grow
- Representing space and time: the long red line
- Performers' scrolls
- Private scrolls: amulets, charms, and prayers
- Ritual scrolls
- Roll it back up.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780393285031
- 0393285030
- OCLC:
- 1037809175
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