Book Slashing in the Reformation Age

Was Wolverine slashing books in the Reformation Age? 😮 Take a closer look at unusual slashes in an early 14-century book of hours with our curator Vanessa.

[madeline]

Clean, dry, UNGLOVED hands! Write that down!

[PeachTeaEm]

Glad yall just incorporate the hand spiel into your videos instead of “WhY aReNt YoU iN gLoVeS?!?” In the comments. Beautiful book!

[ellieechoes]

Also would longer form content of this

[ellieechoes]

I guess slashing a page just felt better than ripping the page.

[prinshmali]

Wonder they did thought of a pen knife 🔪 but not about using simple a Pen to over write these 😂😂😂

[NFTenjoyer]

Its crazy that American politicians today are trying to revive these religious wars from the medieval times.

[KhaozVoid]

Imagine being so weak willed and having such a small constitution that something like a book upsets you.

[SteveSiegelin]

It always saddens me when I hear stories like this. There's so much information that was lost because of ignorance. Tyrannical governments afraid that words in a book will open people's eyes. I have no problem with any religious texts, I've read a lot of each book. Not because I am a theologian, rather because I was curious about our evolution. It's amazing how many stories correlate to other stories in other books. It's also sad that at the end of the ice age the oceans rose 20 m and most of our civilizations were on the coast which means that most of our great libraries and other budding civilization markers have been buried by the Ocean sands. On top of that we had a few great fires throughout history that wiped out major storage hubs for some of the archaeological finds.

[markgarcia]

They couldn’t just rip the page off? lol

[thebreakingwinddialoguessh]

More likely the family dog got a hold of it.

[cm]

There are oils present on our fingers. Why handle this book ungloved? Pretty dumb and careless

[OHz]

Your very dry clean hands are still contaminating the book. Gloves would be preferable