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Caesar Manuscript
Jona Lendering Offline
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06-12-2011, 12:56 AM
If you want to see something beautiful, here is the Codex Bodmer 44, one of the copies of Caesar's Gallic War.
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06-12-2011, 07:22 AM
That is a gorgeous manuscript... I wish I had a poster of that first page of the Gallic Wars.
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06-24-2011, 03:02 AM
Absolutely stunning! How sad it is that we no longer value books enough to spend so much time making them beautiful.
I suppose it is far too much to hope that anyone might ever produce a facsimile of this manuscript which did not cost a king's ransom. Sad
I would love to be able to retire my much loved but decrepit paperback Caesar in favour of a facsimile copy but I don't think I could ever afford it. Cry

Do you know if there is any plan to photograph the entire manuscript in order for it to be able to be displayed (albeit in an inferior form) online, in the same way as has been done with Vegetius and De Rebus Bellicus? It would certainly be wonderful to be able to see more of it. Big Grin

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06-24-2011, 10:40 AM
Beats Kindle any day IMHO.
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06-24-2011, 06:35 PM
Quote:I wish I had a poster of that first page of the Gallic Wars
Control + P should do it. :roll: :wink:
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06-25-2011, 02:01 AM
Thank you very much for posting this Jona!
It is indeed beautiful, and it waould be amazing if a copy were available,
as Crispus says, at an affordable price!
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06-25-2011, 06:29 PM
Quote:Beats Kindle any day IMHO.
For us old guys, there's no comparison to print on paper. Words on screen aren't the same, somehow.
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