"Before print technology, every book was unique. Two manuscripts of the "same" text could package and transmit that text very differently, depending on the choices made by the scribes, compilers, translators, annotators, and decorators. Is it appropriate, Elizabeth Bryan asks, f…
"Before print technology, every book was unique. Two manuscripts of the "same" text could package and transmit that text very differently, depending on the choices made by the scribes, compilers, translators, annotators, and decorators. Is it appropriate, Elizabeth Bryan asks, f…
This study presents detailed information on the book production per century and on the uses of medieval manuscripts in eleven areas of the Latin West. Based on a sample from an extensive library and on additional information the numbers of manuscripts surviving from the period 5…
"This study presents detailed information on the book production per century and on the uses of medieval manuscripts in eleven areas of the Latin West. Based on a sample from an extensive library and on additional information the numbers of manuscripts surviving from the period …
Drawing on statistical techniques and samples this book offers an estimate of medieval production rates of manuscripts in the Latin West. Such information is a helpful production indicator for a period of which we have so little other quantitative data.
A comprehensive, authoritative study of the book before Gutenberg that includes nearly 200 photographic facsimiles of priceless documents.