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A Riveting Hypothesis: The Recess in a Book's Cover May Have Contained More Than Meets the Eye

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2017

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Kirakosian, Racha. 2017. A Riveting Hypothesis: The Recess in a Book's Cover May Have Contained More Than Meets the Eye. Huntington Frontiers 13, no. 1 (Fall/Winter): 8-9.

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One of the most pleasurable experiences one can have as a medievalist is coming across an artifact that triggers a chain of discoveries and unexpected connections. That happened to me when I was researching a codex from The Huntington’s collections, a 15th-century Dutch manuscript of devotional texts known as Huntington Manuscript 1048, or simply HM 1048. Produced in the northeastern part of the Netherlands around 1439, it contains meditations, sermons, and prayers from several authors.

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