Detail of text and the 17th-century signature of James Boraston in a ca. 1200 English transitional Bible folio reused as a #BindingFragment. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.515.

Picture of a ca. 1200 English transitional Bible folio reused as a #BindingFragment. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.515.

Picture of a ca. 1200 English transitional Bible folio reused as a #BindingFragment. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.515.

Detail of text and marginal glossing in a ca. 1200 English transitional Bible folio reused as a #BindingFragment. Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.515.

New at OSU: ca. 1200 English transitional Bible folio reused as a #BindingFragment w/ 17thC signature of James Boraston of Shrewsbury; later owned in 19C by Philip Bliss, asst. librarian at the Bodleian, Sir Thomas Phillipps, E. H. During, & Marvin Colker. II Samuel 15:31-19:9. #MedievalManuscripts

Close-up picture of Caroline minuscule script and Rustic Roman Capitals from a ca. late-11th or early-12th century manuscript copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob, recycled as the cover to a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.

Picture of Caroline minuscule script and Rustic Roman Capitals from a ca. late-11th or early-12th century manuscript copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob, recycled as the cover to a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.

Close-up picture of Caroline minuscule script from a ca. late-11th or early-12th century manuscript copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob, recycled as the cover to a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.

The title page for a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.

Nifty 1501 edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger. But for me, the star of the show is the printed book’s manuscript binding: a recycled leaf from a ca. 11th/12th-century copy of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Job. Lovely hierarchy of script! #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragment #BindingFragment