[Newsbot]

Title: 500-year-old book, history of the world, surfaces in Utah
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-04-25 15:17:35

[Gunnair]

I saw this on the news and was appalled this guy was handling the pages with his bare hands, and not all that gently either.

The guy ain't a professional.

[BartSimpson]

If it is on cotton bond paper then handling it bare handed with clean hands does it no harm.

My wife's family has a lead extrusion tool for stained glass from the 1600's and it has the book that came with it as an instruction manual. It looks like it is on new paper despite the fact that it's over 400 years old.

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

If it is on cotton bond paper then handling it bare handed with clean hands does it no harm.

My wife's family has a lead extrusion tool for stained glass from the 1600's and it has the book that came with it as an instruction manual. It looks like it is on new paper despite the fact that it's over 400 years old.

Can't say what kind of paper, but irrespective of that, I can't say I've seen anyone handle 600 year old books with bare hands and as roughly as this guy was.

[Barilko]

Almost certainly a hoax-the state of Utah and Mormondom in particular are famous for that kind of scam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander_letter

[DanSC]

Is it the Golden Plates?

[Choban]

I got a copy of Treasure Island published in 1902, it's worthless though because it's a school edition and there are 100's of them floating around.