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Here the Frailest Leaves Introduction Dorothy M. Schullian and Her Bathtub Little Treasures from the Bathtub Other Treasures Still Inside the Books Further Resources

Further Resources



De Hamel, Christopher. Cutting up Manuscripts for Pleasure and Profit. The 1995 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. (Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 1995).

Schalick, Walton O., III. "Report on the Special Collections of Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division." (Report commissioned by the NLM, June 1997).

Schullian, Dorothy M. "Here the Frailest Leaves." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 47 (1953): 201-217. Frailest Leaves PDF

Shailor, Barbara. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University. (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1984). Vol. I: MSS 1-250: MS 3 contains a detailed description of 53 fragments removed from NLM bindings.

Watson, Andrew G. "The Post-Medieval Library of All Souls College, Oxford," in Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England. (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004).

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Last reviewed: 07 April 2008
Last updated: 07 April 2008
First published: 06 February 2008
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