01:31It has such a different feel to Italianate.
01:33Mm-hmm.
01:34Okay.
01:3524 crack in your bottom.
01:37And who's the mother of John the Baptist?
01:40That's Elizabeth.
01:41Yeah.
01:42He left for joy in the womb.
01:44In the womb, that's right.
01:45That was Elizabeth.
01:46That's right.
01:48We have one of the most extraordinary books.
01:55It's the oldest surviving Latin copy of Patelemy's Alma Chest.
02:01This book has had an extraordinary journey.
02:02It came to Melbourne in 1949 from a bookseller who had bought the entire stock of a great collector.
02:08That collector bought that book from another collector in London.
02:09Their first collector bought it from a dodgy priest who had sold it in London in the early
02:151920s.
02:16That dodgy priest had somehow got that book out of the library of San Marco in Florence.
02:17But what's so incredible about this book?
02:18So few of them have actually survived.
02:19And yet it's in these books that all of Western knowledge exists.
02:22And there's this incredible book that's a great collector.
02:23The first collector bought it from a dodgy priest who had sold it in London in the early
02:321920s.
02:33That dodgy priest had somehow got that book out of the library of San Marco in Florence.
02:38But what's so incredible about this book?
02:40So few of them have actually survived.
02:43And yet it's in these books that all of Western knowledge exists.
02:48And there's this incredible sense that understanding the past can be read through a tiny prism.
02:55Just about everybody we know can read.
02:58And yet even with all of that literacy, we don't get anywhere near the same respect for
03:04knowledge.
03:05And I think that's what people really respond to.
03:07In a world where we're awash with knowledge, they look back at these books and they say,
03:12here was a time when people couldn't read, where books were like great jewels and objects
03:18of great respect.
03:19It's an extraordinary response to something as commonplace as a book, but in the most uncommon
03:25form.
03:26Things that are small.
03:27In the world where we are, how we want to read, where we want to read, where we want to read,
03:28to see.
03:29In the world where we want to read, in the of the world, how we want to read, it's gotta be
03:31ready to read.
03:32And then, for the ti-a-tube.
03:33You
Comments