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This edition of Aesop’s Fables was created soon after the invention of the printing press around 1455 and would have been very expensive. The delicate paper pages were sold without a binding. In this example, a 12th-century parchment page from a large Talmud, a legal text that explains how the commandments in the Torah are to be carried out, was reused to create a sturdy binding and flyleaves to protect the new book. It is likely that the binder could not read the Aramaic text and simply regarded the page as a strong and decorative material. Today this is recognized to be a rare early fragment of a Talmud, making the binding more precious than the book it encases.
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