Marina Rustow
mrustow
Multihanded documents for your #fragmentfriday! I like these, despite their illegibility: they suggest that bureaucracy was not a modern invention. By bureaucracy, I don't mean annoying paperwork, though there was
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For your #fragmentfriday (tho’ I‘m vaguely aware it’s Sunday): a long vertical scroll (rotulus) from the #cairogeniza with an equally long social history. A winding thread: I’ll tell the story
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Joins: two fragments of the same manuscript that time and entropy have pulled asunder, and modern scholars have matched, like Aristophanes’s soulmates. 2/They can be housed in different libraries, or
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