Scribes Script And Books

Author : Leila Avrin
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838910386
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scribes, Script, and Books written by Leila Avrin and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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 More than 300 plates and illustrations Examples of the different forms of writing from ancient times to the printing press Coverage of cultural and religious books Full bibliography Reference librarians and educators will find this resource indispensable.

Author : Malcolm Beckwith Parkes
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scribes, Scripts, and Readers written by Malcolm Beckwith Parkes and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of writing and reading in the middle ages is not only of direct importance to the understanding of its culture but also fascinating in its own right. Scribes, Scripts and Readers brings together fifteen essays by M.B. Parkes, the author of English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500. Centred on England and her direct neighbours, they deal with scribes and schools of writing, scribal techniques, and wider questions of communication in written language, literacy and the availability of books. This is a book of interest not only to palaeographers but also to historians, linguists, literary scholars and librarians.

Author : Thomas Römer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315487209
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing the Bible written by Thomas Römer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written "word of God", leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. "Writing the Bible" brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of 'authorship', the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement.

Author : Christopher De Hamel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802077073
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scribes and Illuminators written by Christopher De Hamel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the work of medieval paper, parchment, and ink makers, scribes, illuminators, binders, and booksellers

Author : Lotte Hellinga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573467
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain written by Lotte Hellinga and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. The profound changes during that time in social, political and religious conditions are reflected in the dissemination and reception of the written word. The manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. The emphasis in this collection of essays is on the demand and use of books. Patterns of ownership are identified as well as patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand. The book trade receives special attention, with emphasis on the large part played by imports and on links with printers in other countries, which were decisive for the development of printing and publishing in Britain.

Author : Michelle P. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442629257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Source Book for Scribes written by Michelle P. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated exploration of fifteen writing styles drawn from historical manuscripts. Clear examples show how the scripts were developed and used in the past and how they can be written by modern calligraphers.

Author : Erik Kwakkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110862765X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Book in the Twelfth Century written by Erik Kwakkel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.

Author : Julia C. Crick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521810630
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 written by Julia C. Crick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates written communication before and after the introduction of printing in England.

Author : Orietta Da Rold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107102464
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts written by Orietta Da Rold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.

Author : Timothy O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782050926
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Hand written by Timothy O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous edition published as: The Irish hand: scribes and their manuscripts from the earliest times to the seventeenth century with an exemplar of Irish scribes, Mountrath (Co. Laois): Dolmen Press, 1984.