Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
TO THE MEMORY OF MY WIFE WHO SERVED ME FOR YEARS BOTH AS EYESIGHT AND AS WRITING-ARM AND BY WHOSE HAND THE FOLLOWING PAGES WERE IN LARGE PART TRANSCRIBED THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF MY WIFE WHO SERVED ME FOR YEARS BOTH AS EYESIGHT AND AS WRITING-ARM AND BY WHOSE HAND THE FOLLOWING PAGES WERE IN LARGE PART TRANSCRIBED THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
2. PART I.--BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT.I.--THE MAKING OF BOOKS IN THE MONASTERIES 16 Cassiodorus and S. Benedict 17 The Earlier Monkish Scribes 30 The Ecclesiastical Schools and the Clerics as Scribes 36 Terms Used f...
3. PART II.--THE EARLIER PRINTED BOOKS.4. PART I.IN the year 410, Rome was captured and sacked by Alaric the Visigoth. At this time, S. Jerome, in his cell at Bethlehem, was labouring at his _Commentaries on Ezekiel_, while it...
5. CHAPTER I.I HAVE used for the heading of the chapter the term “the making of books” rather than “literary work,” because the service rendered by the earlier monastic scribes (a service of...
6. CHAPTER II.THE following are some of the more important collections referred to in the records of the Middle Ages. In Constantinople the Patriarch had a library in Thomaïtes which was said...
7. CHAPTER III.THE first revival of the long slumbering trade in manuscripts took place in Italy, the cradle of the universities. Although after the breaking down of the old civilisation of th...
8. CHAPTER IV.=Italy.=--It seems probable that the book-trade which had been introduced into Gaul from Rome still existed during the sixth century. F. J. Mone finds references to such trade i...
9. CHAPTER I.THE fragments of classic literature which had survived the destruction of the Western Empire, had, as we have seen, owed their preservation chiefly to the Benedictine monasterie...
10. CHAPTER II.“FOUR men, Gutenberg, Columbus, Luther, and Copernicus, stand at the dividing line of the Middle Ages, and serve as boundary stones marking the entrance of mankind into a higher...
11. CHAPTER III.THE reproduction and distribution of the works of classical writers to such an extent as not only to influence the scholarly thought of the time, but to widen enormously the cir...
12. PART I.--BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT.Introductory.--Cassiodorus and S. Benedict.--The Earlier Monkish Scribes.--The Ecclesiastical Schools and the Clerics as Scribes.--Terms Used for Scribe Work.--S. Columba, the A...
13. PART II.--THE EARLIER PRINTED BOOKS.=I.--The Renaissance as the Forerunner of the Printing-Press.= =II.--The Invention of Printing and the Work of the First Printers of Holland and Germany.= =III.--The Printer-Pub...