The image above is of a late 15th century Spanish translation of Augustine’s The City of God that is exhibited in The Cloisters Museum in NY. I was looking at it yesterday, my own copy of the book in hand. The old edition is three massive volumes; the new one, a Penguin Classic, is a nice little brick of a volume, but still quite handy. Data compression is not a new phenomenon.
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