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Puzzle Me This: Early binding fragments from the Papyrology Collection

[Untitled]

A School Exercise & Biblical Texts

P. Mich. Inv. 926
P. Mich. Inv. 3992

A Text on Medicine & Magic

P. Mich. Inv. 593
P. Mich. Inv. 593
P. Mich. Inv. 593 (cord)
Model of P. Mich. Inv. 593

Homer & The Old Testament

P. Mich. Inv. 2720
P. Mich. Inv. 607a
P. Mich. Inv. 607b

Decorated Leather Cover Fragments

P. Mich. Inv. 4972
P. Mich. Inv. 4972
P. Mich. Inv. 4972
P. Mich. Inv. 4972b
Lamacraft Letter

Cartonnage & Decorated Leather Cover Fragments

P. Mich. Inv. 542
Model of P. Mich. Inv. 542
Model of P. Mich. Inv. 542
P. Mich. Inv. 7078
P. Mich. Inv. 7078
Tooled Leather Model of P. Mich. Inv. 7078

A Board Fragment with Structural Elements

P. Mich. Inv. 7077
P. Mich. Inv. 7077
Cartonnage fragments assigned to P. Mich. Inv. 7077
Model of P. Mich. Inv. 7077
Model of P. Mich. Inv. 7077
Model of Morgan 599

More Text Evidence of Binding

P. Mich. Inv. 1289
P. Mich. Inv. 1289
P. Mich. Inv. 1789
Model of P. Mich. Inv. 1289
Model of P. Mich. Inv. 1289

A Leather Cover Fragment

P. Mich. Inv. 1289
P. Mich. Inv. 1289
Folder inscribed by Charles Lamacraft

1. Leather Model of Wrapper-Style Binding

Leather Model of P. Mich. Inv. 1289
Leather Model of P. Mich. 1289
Leather Model of P. Mich. Inv. 1289

2. Leather Model of Wrapper-Style Binding

Model of Nag Hammadi Codex II
Model of Nag Hammadi Codex II
Model of Nag Hammadi Codex II

A Puzzle in Leather & Cartonnage Fragments

P. Mich. Inv. 4088
P. Mich. Inv. 4088
P. Mich. Inv. 553
P. Mich. Inv. 553
P. Mich. Mich. Inv. 4087
P. Mich. Inv. 4087

Cartonnage from a Book Board

P. Mich. Inv. 612 [a]
P. Mich. Inv. 612 [a]
P. Mich. Inv. 612 [b]
P. Mich. Inv. 612 [b]
P. Mich. Inv. 612 [c]
P. Mich. Inv. 612

A Notebook of Psalms

P. Mich. Inv. 4286
P. Mich. Inv. 4286

A Magical Notebook

P. Mich. Inv. 6632
P. Mich. Inv. 6632
P. Mich. Inv. 6632

Puzzles & Treasures from Cartonnage

P. Mich. Inv. 557a
P. Mich. Inv. 6592a
P. Mich. Inv. 6592b.
P. Mich. Inv. 557d
P. Mich. Inv. 557d

About this Exhibit: Julia Miller

Photograph of Julia Miller

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