Book contents
- History in Flames
- History in Flames
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Our Knowledge of the Past
- Chapter 2 Libraries and Archives
- Chapter 3 What Has Been Lost?
- Chapter 4 A Narrow Escape: Beowulf
- Chapter 5 ‘Away with the Learning of the Clerks!’
- Chapter 6 Strasbourg, 24 August 1870: The Garden of Delights
- Chapter 7 Dublin, 30 June 1922: The Public Record Office of Ireland
- Chapter 8 Naples, 30 September 1943: The State Archive
- Chapter 9 Hanover, 9 October 1943: The Ebstorf Map
- Chapter 10 Chartres, 26 May 1944: The Municipal Library
- Conclusion
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 1 - Our Knowledge of the Past
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 August 2024
- History in Flames
- History in Flames
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Our Knowledge of the Past
- Chapter 2 Libraries and Archives
- Chapter 3 What Has Been Lost?
- Chapter 4 A Narrow Escape: Beowulf
- Chapter 5 ‘Away with the Learning of the Clerks!’
- Chapter 6 Strasbourg, 24 August 1870: The Garden of Delights
- Chapter 7 Dublin, 30 June 1922: The Public Record Office of Ireland
- Chapter 8 Naples, 30 September 1943: The State Archive
- Chapter 9 Hanover, 9 October 1943: The Ebstorf Map
- Chapter 10 Chartres, 26 May 1944: The Municipal Library
- Conclusion
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
Summary
This chapter considers the physical production of writing in a pre-print world, from the clay tablets of Mesopotamia through the papyrus scrolls of antiquity to the birth of the parchment codex in the early Christian period. There follows a discussion of the speed and number of scribes in the world of the medieval parchment book.
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- History in FlamesThe Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts, pp. 1 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024