The Reign of the Manuscript

The Bible even as literature--and both in its origin and history--is a human as well as a divine book. It is _human_ in that it is _to_ man and _for_ man, and not to and for sup...

But the surpassing interest which the Moabite Stone possesses for the antiquarian is not its corroboration of remote Israelitish history or the substantial identity of its lette...

It is evident then that the materials themselves and the changes through which they passed in the process of their improvement, the ink and its constituents, the "hand" of the w...

The manufacture of paper has now reached a stage, it would almost seem, of unimprovable excellence. In what is known as the "India" paper there is combined, to a superlative deg...

Tradition is divided both as to the time and the circumstances under which the Alexandrian Library and Museum, viewed as one institution, came to its end. The tradition which ga...

The Greek classics--the matchless monuments of ancient literature--as represented in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns were preserved, perpetuated, and disseminated...

The making of books and the depositories of them prior to the invention of printing, and especially during the Middle Ages or from the fifth century to the fifteenth, inclusive,...

But these affirmations are not to be maintained by reasoning however cogent nor by logic however convincing but by evidence;--by the testimony of the historians for the period i...

The hieroglyphic writing was of two classes; called _ideographic_ in which ideas were denoted by signs or pictures and _phonetic_ wherein sounds represented ideas. In the ideogr...

I have examined the manuscript of your book with care. The conception seems to me to be admirable, and new in form of presentation. There is a great deal of valuable material fo...

Inks--importance and necessity of good, 47, 57, 83; composition of ancient, 83, 84; lost art, 86; various kinds and colors, 84, 85, 86; uses of colored, 85; millenniums-old, 84;...