After painstakingly crafting a new copy of a destroyed library book, a monk tries to protect if from a hungry bear with a taste for literature. Includes historical note on medieval illuminated manuscripts.
After painstakingly handcrafting a replacement copy of a library book, a medieval monk tries to protect it from a hungry bear with a taste for literature.
This was a great follow-up to reading Brother Theophane and Marguerite Makes a Book. Humorous and full of great medieval vocabulary. The illumination of rye first lattes was a perfect example of what such manuscripts would have had. I especially loved the descriptions of making a book beginning to end and inclusion of the Latin root words. a good library book to look out for.
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