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The role of the scroll : an illustrated introduction to scrolls in the Middle Ages
Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the codex-or book-became the preferred medium for long texts. Why, then, did some people in the...
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Định dạng: | Sách |
Ngôn ngữ: | English |
Được phát hành: |
New York ; London
: W.W. Norton & Company
, [2019]
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Phiên bản: | First edition |
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Truy cập trực tuyến: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
Ghi chú tác giả: | Thomas Forrest Kelly |
Tóm tắt: | Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the codex-or book-became the preferred medium for long texts. Why, then, did some people in the Middle Ages continue to make scrolls? |
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Mô tả vật lý: | xiii, 182 Seiten Illustrationen |
số ISBN: | 9780393285031 0393285030 |