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Time for a Manuscript Close-Up! Welcoming the Abbey Bible to the Museum

The 13th-century illuminated manuscript known as the Abbey Bible recently joined the collection of the Getty Museum—and when the special book arrived, the task of documenting it fell to me. This meant...

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What Do Paleographers Do?

Paleographers at work: Participants in the Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography at the Getty Research Institute decode a 14th-century manuscript on chess. Paleography is the study of old...

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