BBC Traces Origins of Bible Covers

It’s not often an article about what we would call “Bible covers” or “Bible cases” makes the BBC News.   And they don’t actually use that term.

Instead, the article traces the history of early “book satchels” and explains the need-driven creation of them:

Book satchels played a key role in Scotland’s conversion to Christianity by allowing religious texts to be carried easily by monks spreading the word of God.

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