Latin Manuscripts
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ISBN13: 9780217011259
Paperback|9780217011259
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TRANSMISSION OF THE BOOKS. 'PHE PERIOD COVERED.?The creative genius of the Ro- 42 mans ends, so far as literature is concerned, with the reign of Trajan (97-117 A. D.). From this time until the invention of printing the preparing and publication of books did not vary from the methods described above, except so far as the parchment codex differed in form from the papyrus roll. During this period of about thirteen centuries we have now to consider the fates of the published works, or in other words of the manuscripts that contained them: the means that were taken to preserve them, how they were lost, and then after nearly a thousand years partially recovered. This period may be naturally divided into three very unequal portions: i. The Period of the Decline, extending roughly to the Germanic invasions of about the fifth century; 2. The Dark Ages, extending to about the thirteenth century; 3. The Revival of Learning. It must be remembered that we are concerned with the social, political and literary history of these times so far only as it relates to the Transmission of the Manuscripts. The Period Of The Decline.?It is a fact well known to all 43 students of literature that at the time when genius is least productive and originality most torpid the masterpieces of an earlier day will be most carefully studied and appreciated. This is eminently true of Roman literature: its darkest period saw the establishment of public libraries, the growth of schools and universities on humanistic lines, the rise of the grammarians, and the classics made the last defense of paganism against Christianity. All these agencies made for the preservation of literature, so far as it was preserved at all, and must be examined therefore in some detail. 44 Public Libraries.?The growth of pri...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217011259 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021701125X |
| Weight | 0.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 96 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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