In spite of their role as this essential tether to the
past, manuscripts are some of the least accessible artefacts from the Middle
Ages. They are kept in research libraries, often available only to scholars.
When they are put on public display, what we see of them is so limited. (Mary
Wellesley, Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers [London:
Riverrun, 2017], 8)
Remember this when some
people, following D. Michael Quinn, will claim the Smith family somehow had
access to medieval-era manuscripts discussing various ‘magical’ traditions.
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