I collect old manuscripts, palimpsests, incunabula, all sorts - and have had a few interesting discoveries in my acquisitions over the years. There's the 17th

I collect old manuscripts, palimpsests, incunabula, all sorts - and have had a few interesting discoveries in my acquisitions over the years. There's the 17th c. family bible that someone has made a fortune-telling doohickey in the rear cover of, made of two circles of paper with different starts and ends of fortunes, which rotate atop each other. There's also the BBC archive copy of the Times from the outbreak of WWI, covered in notes from radio editors who it appears got their news from re-hashing broadsheets. My favourite, however, is an early edition of Pope's translation of the Iliad that came complete with a lamb-gut condom. Can only imagine it sat next to someone's bed some centuries ago.