Scribes, Script, and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance - Hardcover

Scribes, Script, and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance.

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. XXXII, 356 p. Schutzumschlag mit leichten Randläsuren und Einriss am Hinterdeckel, am Buchrücken ausgeblichen, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / Dust jacket with slight edgewear and tear to rear cover, spine faded, otherwise a good and clean copy without markings. - Contents Plates Figures Maps Tables Preface Introduction CHAPTER 1 Writing Embryo Writing Systems and Stages The Ancestors of Western Script CHAPTER 2 The Alphabet Principle and System Diffusion of the Alphabet CHAPTER 3 The Book in the Ancient World: Mesopotamia History of Mesopotamia: Sumer, Assyria, Babylonia Books: Materials and Techniques Literature Illustration Scribes Colophons CHAPTER 4 The Egyptian Book History and Evidence Materials Scrolls Titles and Colophons Literature Illustrations Scribes CHAPTER 5 The Hebrew Book History Materials The Making of a Torah Scroll Scribes Books Other than the Torah Development of the Hebrew Codex: The Middle Ages Adornment and Illumination of Hebrew Manuscripts CHAPTER 6 The Greek and Hellenistic Book History and Evidence for the Book Materials The Writing of a Scroll Readers and Scribes Colophons Literature Hellenism and the Book Parchment CHAPTER 7 The Roman Book History and Literature Materials Publishers, Scribes, and Readers Education From Scroll to Codex CHAPTER 8 Latin Script Capitals Cursive Scripts Uncials Minuscules Gothic Script Humanistic Script Calligraphy after the Invention of Printing CHAPTER 9 Codices Manu Scripti: Books Written by Hand The Monastery and Literary Tradition Materials Design and Preparation of the Codex The Scribe Colophons The Artist Women and Books The Late Middle Ages Sources of Manuscripts CHAPTER 10 Manuscript Illumination Methodology Early Christian and Byzantine Manuscripts Hiberno-Saxon Carolingian Renaissance Ottoman Romanesque Gothic CHAPTER 11 The Islamic Book Materials: Papyrus, Parchment, and Paper Tools, Ink, and Paint Format Literature Script and Scribes Illustration CHAPTER 12 Papermaking From the Far East to the Near East Spain Italy European Methods New Raw Materials Innovations CHAPTER 13 Bookbinding Technique: Forwarding Finishing History CHAPTER 14 On the Eve of Printing Block Printing in the Far East and Near East Block Printing in Europe Block Books. ISBN 9780838905227 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1418. Artikel-Nr. 1223981

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