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Newberry Library discovers it holds the largest example in existence of an extremely rare paper typeCHICAGO -- The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the ...
Chicago — The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the ...
Newberry Library discovers it holds the largest example in existence of an extremely rare paper type
The Newberry’s Library’s manuscript is about 49 sheets long. Advertisement “When the results did come back, it was very exciting,” said Kim Nichols, the library’s director of conservation.
Director of Conservation Kim Nichols shines a light through a page of Ayer 1485, a Nahuatl-language manuscript, in the conservation lab at Newberry Library on the Near North Side on Wednesday, Dec ...
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