The spread of printing, assisted by Western Europe’s religious turmoil, contributed to the destruction and dismemberment of numerous books beginning in the sixteenth century. Fragments of medieval manuscripts were commonly recycled into endleaves, spine linings, or hinges. Less often, discarded leaves of parchment were used to cover new books. In this case, Crispijn van de Passe’s Cognoscite lilia agri quomodo crescant, a book of flower engravings, was wrapped in waste containing a responsory from the Latin Office of the Dead, “rogamus te domine deus noster.”