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Cristina Solidoro, « Il reimpiego di manoscritti medievali in legature », Gazette du livre médiéval, ID : 10.3406/galim.2018.2139
Scholars have always investigated fragments of manuscripts according to their field of study. A new global perspective Further potential in studying this particular type of sourceswas brought out by a new global perspective. In this contribution, the interest is particularly directed to fragments of medieval fragments re-used as bindings material, especially from archives bindings. The study of bindings including fragments of manuscripts -and notably the analysis of their external characteristics (such as the conditions and circumstances of the re-used fragments) -raises the issue of whether and to what extent this crafting practice plays a part in selecting manuscripts to be re-used. Specialized researches about the phenomenon of re-using fragments of medieval manuscripts in bindings is supposed to integrate our knowledge in history of books.