386 Gogol's Ukrainian Nights | HOL Presents "Mysteries of a Merlin Manuscript" (A Book Dreams Podcast)
The History of Literature
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How to Reconstruct a Manuscript
The manuscript is e very, very heavily damaged. It was pasted down ito the front of a book in the nineteenth century. We think that one unpasted it when there were cataloguing it and changing the am the spine of the book. And that pulled away quite of the ink. So it was my job to reconstruct the text,. essentially using what i could see from the text. I'm not exactly sure how the machine works, but it can take photoes that show more of the trace the ink would have left than you can see with the iye. That was really helpful as well. Bcause sometimes you only need just that little bit of an edge of a letter and
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