[PDF] The Codex And Crafts In Late Antiquity eBook

Author : Georgios Boudalis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781941792124

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The innovation of the codex in late antiquity -- The wooden tablet codex -- The single gathering codex -- The multigathering codex : an introduction -- Sewing the gatherings -- Boards and their attachment -- Spine linings -- Endbands -- Covers and their decoration -- Fastenings -- Bookmarks and board corner straps

Author : Eric G. Turner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1512807869

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN : 9781940965086

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Beyond tree calf: bindings decorated by staining -- Not altogether unpleasing: the experiment with canvas bindings -- Wrapped with care: overcovers -- Good enough for Galileo: books made for scholars -- A gift from the desert: a report on the Nag Hammadi codices / co-authored with Pamela Spitzmueller -- A model approach.

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108481477

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A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.

Author : J. A. Szirmai
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Bookbinding, Medieval
ISBN : 9781138247321

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An expanded version of a series of lectures, supplemented with the results of ten years of intensive research in major libraries on the Continent, the United Kingdom and the USA, this major volume surveys the evolution of binding structures from the introduction of the codex two thousand years ago to the close of the Middle Ages.

Author : Gillian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0199546207

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Sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time, showing that this was in fact a period of great transformation

Author : Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0199843694

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Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.

Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009121413

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This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students and researchers. Introducing misunderstood and overlooked aspects of these manuscripts, it convincingly challenges current understandings of late medieval literary and material culture.