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From Bookroll to Codex

Here is a link to a YouTube video of the lecture,

From Bookroll to Codex. The story of the ancient book in Greece and Rome. William A. Johnson, Duke University.

You might also find interesting this post by the Mellon-Sawyer workshop, which discusses the other part of that seminar, which had to do with roll and scroll manufacture, on papyrus (ancient Mediterranean) and silk (ancient Chinese).

Mellon-Sawyer Workshop on Ancient Papyrus Manufacture and Chinese Scroll Production: blog with images

And, finally, there is this link, which has the Mellon-Sawyer workshops on making birch-bark books, palm leaf manuscripts, etc. For those who are hard core about ancient book manufacture, and interested in the global story.

The Manuscript across pre-modern Eurasian: YouTube uploads