@inbook{b75ad497913d45d8af3eb7bb2790a5a3,
title = "Textual Stowaways: Unseen Early Modern Travels of Medieval Texts",
abstract = "The medieval and early modern periods were less wasteful than our current era and used resources more sustainably. It was common practice to recycle the parchment of old or unwanted books and documents in the construction of new books, as coverings, pastedowns, and spine guards. As a result, fragments of medieval manuscripts have travelled unseen for many centuries, stowed away within the physical structures of early modern printed books; in many cases it is only as older bindings have begun to fail and required conservation that their hidden textual components have been revealed. This essay discusses this phenomenon, drawing its examples from the holdings of the University of St Andrews. It concentrates on books printed in Germany in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, and the stowaway medieval texts that have come to light in their bindings.",
keywords = "Manuscript, Medieval, Printed book, Fragment",
author = "Margaret Connolly",
year = "2023",
month = nov,
day = "8",
doi = "10.5771/9783831677542-339",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783831649969",
series = "English and Beyond",
publisher = "Utz Verlag",
pages = "339--356",
editor = "Renate Bauer and Christine Elsweiler and Ulrike Krischke and Kerstin Majewski",
booktitle = "Travelling Texts - Texts Travelling",
}