Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
Of the books which preceded the invention of Printing, a much larger quantity is still extant than the world in general would suppose, but they are nevertheless so widely scattered and so seldom immediately accessible, that only a very long experience will enable any one to sp...
To go back to the fourteenth century. In Italy the broken Lombard had given way to the general adoption of the modern gothic. Some excellent decorative work began to appear in t...
8. Part 8The writing of the late Italian MSS., among which classical texts rival the books of prayers in the elegance of their adornment, was more frequently Roman than gothic, but a fin...
3. Part 3The Septuagint must remain the true Bible of Christendom until the Hebrew text of the præ-Christian ages is discovered. Next to it in importance is the Syriac Bible, and next to...
4. Part 4Books in the classical period had of course been ornamented with illustrations, but the illumination of books (in the mediæval sense) did not originate with the Græco-Roman call...
6. Part 6Between the ninth century and the sixteenth, the multiplication of MSS. in Europe was very great, but comparatively few of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh have been preserved. Be...
1. Part 1Of the books which preceded the invention of Printing, a much larger quantity is still extant than the world in general would suppose, but they are nevertheless so widely scatte...
2. Part 2About, or soon after, 1000 B.C., we find a considerable portion of the earth's surface occupied by people knowing how to write; namely, Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, Arabia, the whol...
5. Part 5In the minuscule writing of Greek, which is usually {48}supposed to have come into use about the end of the eighth century, there never was the same calligraphical character as...
9. Part 9Cadmus the Phoenician, 10 Calendars in Prayer books, 67 Calligraphy extinguished by Printing, 80 Canon Law, 57 Canonical Hours, 53 Canterbury school of writing, 59 Capitals in w...