[Neidermeyer]

Manuscript: The one surviving copy of the poem is contained on badly burnt parchment in the British Library
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And archived just the way someones mom might do it ,, scotch taped to another piece of cheap paper.

[ponygirl]

LOL... It's would hope it's one of those special archival tapes. Sometimes I have found entire documents in pieces and encased in a thin shell of parchment and am amazed that they survived.

A few years ago, I met with my father's uncle to interview him about family history and he brought a photo album with him. He had been with General Patton when he crossed the Rhine and the book was full of precious photographs from that time and you guessed it, they were all Scotch-taped into one of those dimestore magnetic albums with the sticky stuff all over the pages, acetate turning the photos orange. I was horrified. I asked him if I could take the album to scan the photos and he let me, and I took everything out and replaced all the pictures in an archival album with photo corners and labeled everything for him. He was so thrilled.

[Calvin Locke]

I'd bet the parchment and paper have both been gassed to neutralize any acids...

I'm pretty sure I got a translated e-version from Gutenberg, as well as an audio.

If not Gutenberg, then LibriVox.org.

[Conservative4Ever]

Hah, you’re right....LOLs