Hardback. 104 pages.  Lacks dustjacket and minor cover discolouration but internally very clean with no inscriptions or library markings.  With many line drawings and eleven b&w plates, plus site plans, including the five fold-out plans at the rear all in excellent condition.

The first section of this book provides background information on the Manchester Museum Mummy Project from its early phase in the 1970s until 2003, the year in which a centre became dedicated to biomedical Egyptology.

A survey of record keeping through history from the rock cut inscriptions of Darius and the ancient Egyptian 'Rosetta' stone, via the cuneiform clay tablets of the Sumerians, to the advent of medieval illuminated parchment manuscripts culminating with the introduction to the West of paper invente

Catalogue of an exhibition of medieval manuscripts with a lengthy Introduction to the subject and a useful chapter on 'Features of Manuscripts of the Middle ages plus 17 b&w plates. 72 pages. Card covers. Some external wear and minor signs of ageing but internally sound. Cat No 1598