Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. A NOTE ON Texts, Translations, and Terminology ix
4. PROLOGUE 1
5. Part I The Medium and Its Making
6. Chapter one. THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW 13
7. Chapter two. HAIR, FLESH, SENSE 25
8. Chapter three. GRISTLE, STINK, SKIN 37
9. Chapter four. THE FLAYED FOLIO 64
10. Chapter five. UTERINE VELLUM AND THE PAGE UNBORN 105
11. Chapter six. QUESTIONS OF QUANTITY Membrane and Archival Scale 122
12. Part II. The Medium and Its Messages
13. Chapter seven. PARCHMENT INVENTIONS 147
14. Chapter eight. ST. AUGUSTINE’S (A) THEOLOGY OF PARCHMENT 165
15. Chapter nine. RIDDLED FLESH 179
16. Chapter ten. THE HUMAN BOOK AND THE BODY OF CHRIST 193
17. Chapter eleven. TORAH, TALMUD, TEFILLIN 223
18. Chapter twelve. SHAKESPEARE’S PARCHMENTS, IN LIFE AND DEATH 244
19. Part III. The Medium and Modernity
20. Chapter thirteen. BIOCODICOLOGY Book History and the Biomolecular Revolution 273
21. Chapter fourteen. ECOCODICOLOGY or, Is the Book a Byproduct? 288
22. Chapter fifteen. PARCHMENT ELEGIES 307
23. EPILOGUE Digital Vellum 341
24. NOTES 347
25. BIBLIOGRAPHY 369
26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 405
27. PHOTO CREDITS 408
28. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS 413
29. SUBJECT INDEX 416