The Reign of the Manuscript
by Perry Wayland Sinks
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sinks, Perry Wayland
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Paleography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45510
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45510
- Release Date
- April 27, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE REIGN OF THE MANUSCRIPT
- 2.AN APPRECIATION
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE REIGN OF THE MANUSCRIPT
- 5.I THE EPOCHAL INVENTION OF PRINTING
- 6.II THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINTING PRESS
- 7.III THE PERIOD OF MANUSCRIPT LITERATURE
- 8.IV THE AMPLITUDE OF THE BIBLE IN MANUSCRIPT
- 9.V THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN LITERATURE
- 10.VI MATERIALS EMBODYING LITERATURE
- 11.VII VARIETIES AND CHANGES IN THE MATERIALS OF BOOKS
- 12.VIII PARCHMENT AND VELLUM
- 13.IX PAPYRUS
- 14.X PAPER AND ITS MANUFACTURE
- 15.XI OTHER MATERIALS OF LITERATURE
- 16.XII INKS
- 17.XIII IMPLEMENTS OF WRITING
- 18.XIV THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PALÆOGRAPHY
- 19.XV MECHANICAL AND ARTIFICIAL DEVICES OF LITERATURE
- 20.XVI SOURCES OF THE BOOK-MAKING INDUSTRY
- 21.XVII THE LITERARY PREËMINENCE OF ALEXANDRIA
- 22.XVIII VARYING FORTUNES OF THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY
- 23.XIX CONSTANTINOPLE THE LATER CENTER OF LITERATURE
- 24.XX MONASTERIES AND THE MONASTIC INSTITUTION
- 25.INDEX
- 26.FOOTNOTES
- 27.Transcribers' Notes
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