Scribes, Script, and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the RenaissanceIn this detailed overview of the history of the handmade book, Avrin looks at the development of scripts and styles of illumination, the making of manuscripts, and the technological processes involved in paper-making and book-binding. Readers will have a greater understanding of ancient books and texts with
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Contents
Writing | 17 |
The Alphabet | 45 |
Mesopotamia | 63 |
CHAPTER 4 | 81 |
History | 103 |
The Greek and Hellenistic Book | 139 |
The Writing of a Scroll | 147 |
Literature | 153 |
Books Written by Hand | 205 |
Women and Books | 226 |
Early Christian and Byzantine Manuscripts | 233 |
HibernoSaxon | 241 |
Ottonian | 249 |
CHAPTER 11 | 261 |
CHAPTER 12 | 283 |
Innovations | 294 |
CHAPTER 7 | 159 |
Publishers Scribes and Readers | 168 |
CHAPTER 8 | 177 |
CHAPTER 9 | 194 |
CHAPTER 13 | 301 |
CHAPTER 14 | 327 |
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