10/7/2026
These Medieval Manuscript Fragments Were Reused as Parchment, Inadvertently Preserving Them for Centuries
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Recently discovered on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, the pages include Bible passages, poems, plays and other texts. They were repurposed as book bindings during the 16th and 17th centuries
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