{"id":21282,"date":"2026-02-28T04:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=21282"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:07:23","slug":"medieval-missal-fragment-as-early-modern-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/medieval-missal-fragment-as-early-modern-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Missal Fragment as Early-Modern Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Medieval Missal Fragment
\nin Latin on Vellum
\nReused
\nas the Early-Modern Binding Cover
\nfor Erasmus Reinhold,
\nPrutenicae Tabulae<\/em> (1585)<\/h1>\n

Mildred Budny<\/p>\n

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Reinhold (1585), Front Cover. Collector’s Photograph.<\/p><\/div>\n

[Posted 25 February 2026, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n

In a Private Collection, we learn of an early-modern printed book on paper which reuses a medieval vellum binding fragment as cover for the card covers of its binding. Gladly we offer some first fruits of examining this evidence, in the process of work-in-progress process to learn about the original manuscript, the identity of its genre of book, its context, its reuse, and its fate within the printed book which ensured its survival, at least as a partial witness, to its former, intended, state.<\/p>\n

With permission, we share the owner’s photographs of the ‘beginning, middle, and end’ of this specimen, or the ‘front, back, and side’.<\/p>\n

I. The Printed Book<\/h2>\n

We introduce:<\/p>\n