Scribes Script And Books

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.

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

Looks at the work of medieval paper, parchment, and ink makers, scribes, illuminators, binders, and booksellers

“Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated.”—Erik Spiekermann, typographer We may love books, but do we know

Ренессанса могло бы и не существовать.Не было бы ни шедевров Леонардо да Винчи и Микеланджело, ни блистательного политического цинизма Макиавелли, ни всей эпохи расцвета наук и искусств, времени создания гениальных произведений живописи, литературы и философии.Не было бы, если бы однажды собиратель старинных рукописей Поджо Браччолини не натолкнулся в монастырской библиотеке

Books about Writing the Kind of Book People Want to Read

The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around

Books about Scripta Signa Vocis

Alan D. Crown provides a guide to the techniques used by the Samaritan scribes in copying manuscripts. He places Samaritan works in a description of their literary history and shows the more important manuscripts of each type of literature. In addition there is a listing of Samaritan scribes and the

Close analysis of formal and conventional features of the bookrolls not only provides detailed information on the bookroll industry- but also, in turn, suggests some intriguing questions and provisional answers about the ways in which the use and function of the bookroll among ancient readers may differ from modern or