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Parable of a New Reading Mode

apostles: (detail of Apostles) Our Lady Mary, Apostles, Saint George, and Saint Theodore, Fere Seyon, Central Ethiopia, 1445-80

(detail of Apostles) Our Lady Mary, Apostles, Saint George, and Saint Theodore, by Fere Seyon(?), Central Ethiopia, 1445-80, tempera on gesso-covered wood panels

"Adoption of the Codex Book, Parable of a New Reading Mode"

The bizarre story of the invention of both previous millennia, with illustration, footnotes and bibliography.

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