The infamous “Très Riches Heures” manuscriipt is only available in facsimile form.
1. How does this fit into debates surrounding facsimile’s being the substitute the real thing?
2. Consider Walter Benjamin’s debate on the ‘aura’ (Walter Benjamin in the Age of Digital Reproduction: “That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art.”
and Michael Camille’s debate that the TRH “has not lost but rather gained ‘aura’ in the age of its mechanical reproducibility.” p.72
3. Include references to the online facsimile
please use MHRA footnotes for sources