Medieval Manuscript Mended with Silk Thread

There's a hole in your Fifteenth Century manuscript. How are you going to fix it? At some point during the history of this manuscript housed at Uppsala University in Sweden, the solution was to embroider the holes.

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(Photos: Uppsala University)


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