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Total Pages : 1610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1945-03 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Abraham Owen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859913348
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales written by Charles Abraham Owen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the tales and the extraordinary shifts in textual affiliations within the manuscripts. Owen sees the manuscripts that survive, most of them collections of all or almost all the tales, as derived from the large number of single tales and small collections that circulated after Chaucer's death. This theory takes issue with all modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, which in Owen's view reflect the effort of medieval scribes and supervisors to make a satisfactory book of the collection of fragments Chaucer left behind. It is this collection of fragments, the authentic Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer, which reflects the different stages of the plan that was still evolving at his death. CHARLES A. OWEN Jr is former Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies at the University of Conneticut.
Author : Rushton M. Dorman
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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library, Manuscripts and Prints of Rushton M. Dorman, Esq., of Chicago, Illinois written by Rushton M. Dorman and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Swann Galleries
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Early Printed Books, 1470-1740 written by Swann Galleries and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Connolly
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384575X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England written by Margaret Connolly and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.
Author : Thomas Greenwood
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Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Libraries, Museums and Art Galleries Year Book written by Thomas Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coverage includes Ireland.
Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241207
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Burning the Books written by Richard Ovenden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Author : Lotte Hellinga
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900434036X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Incunabula in Transit written by Lotte Hellinga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, engaged agents and traded Latin books over long distances. They adapted presentation to suit the taste of distinct readerships, local and remote. Publishing in vernacular languages required typographical innovations, as the chapter on William Caxton’s Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga’s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.
Author : Stephen G. Nichols
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472106967
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Whole Book written by Stephen G. Nichols and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the fascinating, not-so-miscellaneous miscellanies
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Total Pages : 894 pages
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Download or read book Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Reed
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ISBN 13 : 9780950336725
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Nature and Making of Parchment written by Ronald Reed and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1096 pages
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Download or read book The Architect and Contract Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard De Bury
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486832465
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Philobiblon written by Richard De Bury and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1120 pages
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Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).
Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783745193
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced images led to the creation of new multimedia objects. Rudy then travels to the nineteenth century to examine the phenomenon of manuscript books being pillaged for their prints and drawings: she has diligently tracked down the dismembered parts of this book of hours for the first time. Image, Knife, and Gluepot also documents Rudy’s twenty-first-century research process, as she hunts through archives while grappling with the logistics and occasionally the limits of academic research. This is a timely volume, focusing on questions of materiality at the forefront of medieval and literary studies. Beautifully illustrated throughout, its use of original material and its striking interdisciplinary approach, combining book and art history, make it a significant academic achievement. Image, Knife, and Gluepot is a valuable text for any scholar in the fields of medieval studies, the history of early books and publishing, cultural history or material culture. Written in Rudy’s inimitable style, it will also be rewarding for any student enrolled in a course on manuscript production, as well as non-specialists interested in the afterlives of manuscripts and prints. The Royal Society of Edinburgh has generously contributed to this Open Access publication. Due to the number and quality of the images in this book, we have provided the option of a more expensive hardback edition, printed on the best quality paper available, in order to present the images as clearly and beautifully as possible. We hope this range of options — the freely available PDF, HTML and XML editions; the economically priced EPUB, MOBI and paperback editions; and the more expensively printed hardback — will satisfy everyone. Furthermore the HTML edition allows readers to magnify the images of the manuscripts displayed in the book.
Author : New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
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Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division written by New York Public Library. Rare Book Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
