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Materiality of Religious Books | 31www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 13–32 the value of its contents and possibly never has other than in those few cases of economic independence and for a handful of people (fig. 12). However, the emotional appropriation of books can give even meagre material quality meaning, transgressing the limits of materiality. Bibliography Báez, Fernando, 2008, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq, New York: Atlas & Co. Brubaker, Leslie, 1985, Politics, Patronage, and Art in Ninth-Century Byzantium: The homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris (B. N. Gr. 510), Dumbarton Oaks Papers 39, 1–13. De Hamel, Christopher, 2016, Meeting with Remarkable Manuscripts, London: Penguin Books. Durand, Paul, 1867, Étude sur l’etimacia. Symbole du jugement dernier dans l’iconographie grecque chrétienne. Chartres: Garnier. Jungmann, Josef A., 1951, The Mass of the Roman Rite, New York: Benziger. Maniaci, Marilena, 2015, Codicology, in: Bausi, Alessandro et al. (eds.), Comparative Orien- tal Manuscript Studies. An Introduction, Hamburg: Tredition, 69-265. Neuheuser-Christ, Hanns-Peter / Schmitz, Wolfgang (eds.), 2016, Fragment und Makulatur. Fig. 12: University Library Graz, ms. 763, fol. 152r. A delicately repaired tear in the parchment, executed with care and remarkable skill. (Photo: E. Renhart)