Even replica books are expensive as fuck. I remember wanting to see if it was possible to get a modern made copy of medieval manuscripts, and you can; but they are still like tens of thousands of dollars. 😩
You can probably get coffee table book representations of some books. I have a Canterbury Tales and Mallory’s Le Mort d’Arthur. Not really medieval, but they’re done up as such.
Making a book even close to the style of medieval manuscripts is an incredible amount of hand printing and artwork. Some are absolutely beautiful, and a cost of tens of thousands is not unreasonable for a year or more of an artist’s effort.
I mean, I did expect to have a normal printed copy, not an original hand-copied copy. Like sure, it would likely need to be copied by hand from the original if it’s old and kinda messed up, but then that first copy could be machine printed in mass quantities. They apparently don’t do that 🤷♂️
Even replica books are expensive as fuck. I remember wanting to see if it was possible to get a modern made copy of medieval manuscripts, and you can; but they are still like tens of thousands of dollars. 😩
They gotta pay those medieval manuscript licensing fees
You can probably get coffee table book representations of some books. I have a Canterbury Tales and Mallory’s Le Mort d’Arthur. Not really medieval, but they’re done up as such.
Making a book even close to the style of medieval manuscripts is an incredible amount of hand printing and artwork. Some are absolutely beautiful, and a cost of tens of thousands is not unreasonable for a year or more of an artist’s effort.
I mean, I did expect to have a normal printed copy, not an original hand-copied copy. Like sure, it would likely need to be copied by hand from the original if it’s old and kinda messed up, but then that first copy could be machine printed in mass quantities. They apparently don’t do that 🤷♂️
https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_medieval?sort=date
I’m sure you can find a print shop who would print PDFs from the internet archive. It’d be a cheap replacement though, not a replica.