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Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan Library permalink

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"Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan presents a selection of outstanding works from the collection. Highlights include a bejeweled eighth-century binding used on the famous Lindau Gospels, a magnificent seventh-to-eighth–century Coptic work, and a seventeenth-century English Bible and prayer book in stump work embroidery..."

The exhibition opened on December 5th and will be on view through March 29, 2009.

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