Publisher's Synopsis
"Literary Nonfiction. Art. Untold numbers of scans of book pages are available in digital repositories. But without the physical presence of a book, is there a way to take in some aspect of it all at once? Both an artist's book and an inquiry into medieval printing, design, and typography, in THE MANUSCRIPT AVERAGE Jesse Hurlbut overlays scans of medieval manuscript pages to explore new modes of how we comprehend what a book is, its potential, and the mysteries of printed words"--.
