Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library Medieval Money long before the discipline was

long before the discipline was even properly established

but a number of preparatory drawings and paintings provide precious information

which combines original research with developments in Joyce bibliographic scholarship over the past several decades

that details the circuitous history of the collection from Egypt to New York to Rome and back to New York

Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library Medieval Money long before the discipline wasTheodore C. Petersen wrote Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1929 and 1950, but it remained unpublished until now. The seminal work describes the binding techniques and materials of a collection of early manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum. The collection consists of ninth and tenth century bindings of over fifty manuscripts discovered in 1910 in the Fayum Oasis in Egypt. The collection of Coptic manuscripts was