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Hello, we start today with a man with a passion.

A passion for medieval manuscripts.

Let's hear what he has to say about it.

Of course I am the most biased person in the world, but I think that medieval

manuscripts are truly fascinating at so many levels.

I want to know everything about them. I want to know

who made them and when and why and where and what they contain and where their

texts came from, why a particular manuscript was thought to be needed, and how they were

copied and under what conditions and how these affected the format and size, what materials

were used, how long the manuscripts took to make, why and how they were decorated, and by whom?

If they were decorated, and why not, if they weren't, and what they cost, and how they were bound, who used them, and in what way,

how or whether they were retransmitted onwards and further copies, what changes were made

to them later, where they were kept, how changes were made to them later?

Where they were kept, how they were shelved and catalogued, how they have survived, often against

all odds.

Who has owned them, how they were bought and sold, and for how much, for they were always valuable,

under what circumstances they reached the custody of their current owners,

...