# Digest urth.v006.n021

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 Jan 1998*

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### Alice Turner
*28 Jan 1998, 22:19*

Christopher,

> Is the copy of the BOTNS which is given to Thecla in her cell Severian's
> first manuscript, or a copy? (I don't know if we have a definite answer to
> this).

There is no reason to think that it is not a printed book, one of a print
run, very likely with a buckram cover (I speculate on the brown cover to
make the point that on Urth books as they are today survive). TNOTNS
differentiates between manuscripts and books, and it is definitely a book.

-alga-

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