Welcome to taking the time to discover a bit about human stories written by human hands. Over the last ten years, I, Lisa Bevevino, have worked to put together a collection of authentic manuscript leaves and facsimiles of full codices and scrolls. You don't need to be in a big city to touch history from abroad--you can come here, to Morris, Minnesota, out on the prairie and touch and read things from a thousand years ago. You can discover texts from the Americas and from Europe, Africa, and Asia. These are human stories. That means they're ours.

If you like watching videos, watch this video poem I wrote about manuscripts and the human, animal, and plant lives and stories that formed them.