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Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM)
LiveFamily: Prices & wages · Custodian: University of Pennsylvania
The flagship manuscript sale/price/provenance database: sales, commission records, and prices at scale, joined elsewhere in the corpus to dimensions and decoration data for codicological census work.
Link https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/
Citing conjectures (16)
- The cutting-stock codex
- Her books live longer
- Fiction depreciates first
- The palimpsest barometer
- The thousand-year price of a plain book
- The flock sets the folio
- The second-hand ceiling
- Survival is a luxury good
- The scribe's plague dividend
- Paying for the pocket
- Baumol in the scriptorium
- The binding tax on short texts
- The book keeps its silver
- The grade ladder of charta
- Books pawn like plate
- Teaching Sanskrit Manuscripts to Tell Time