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Tom Johnson: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript, 25 September 2025

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight 
by Arthur Bahr.
Chicago, 257 pp., £36, March, 978 0 226 83535 8
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... We don’t really know what it is or what it was for. In his new study of the manuscript, Arthur Bahr embraces the mystery, spiritedly chasing after a book that will never let us catch up. He suggests that it is ‘a pedagogical compilation’, cleverly designed to provoke readers into reflecting on the limits and possibilities of meaning-making ...

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