07-12-2022, 10:39 PM
There have been many attempts to determine how many manuscripts from the medieval period are lost. No one really knows, of course, but a recent analysis estimated it could be as high as 90%. More on that here:
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It's a tough journey from there-and-then to here-and-now...not just victims of the predictable dangers of fire, flood, war, rodents, etc., but also books that fell apart from overuse or were intentionally destroyed through censorship or vandalism or used as binding waste or dismembered to be part of the capitalist biblioclasm of the twentieth-century. Like its fellow medieval manuscripts, the VMS is a heroic little survivor!
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It's a tough journey from there-and-then to here-and-now...not just victims of the predictable dangers of fire, flood, war, rodents, etc., but also books that fell apart from overuse or were intentionally destroyed through censorship or vandalism or used as binding waste or dismembered to be part of the capitalist biblioclasm of the twentieth-century. Like its fellow medieval manuscripts, the VMS is a heroic little survivor!