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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

by Christopher de Hamel

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“An archival manuscript is a living document; microfilm reproduction, while sometimes unavoidable, can drain the life out of it.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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“Taking you to a place poised somewhere between the familiar and the exotic.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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“You realize that it is an illusion to imagine that one could ever actually reconstruct the past.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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“The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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“When working in the archive you will often find yourself thinking of this exploration as a dive, a submersion, perhaps even a drowning … you feel immersed in something vast, oceanic.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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