[split] Bindings & covers

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So would Rudolph have been expected to rebind the manuscript?  Was this something he would have done? In later years this was common - you rebound your books to match your library - but what was the custom in Rudolph's Prague?

Oh wow. That's a really good question.

I don't know the answer, but it would not surprise me if a purchaser of a second-hand manuscript had it rebound, especially if it were someone with a lot of money.


But... the example René showed us of a manuscript from Rudolph's library was something of exquisite quality and the VMS was quite humbly bound.