[PDF.46sr] Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

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 | #699020 in Books |  imusti |  2014-02-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.40 x.60 x8.40l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

 | Oxford University Press

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| How anciemt literature made it to the twenty-first century|By LostMarble|Scribes and Scholars by L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson is a treatise about the transmission of ancient Greek and Latin literature from the time of its creation until the early nineteenth century. It covers book production, libraries, book collecting, scripts, scrolls, codices, papyrus, parchment, paper, p| |"For the third edition the authors have not only brought the bibliographical notes up to date but also made extensive amendments and additions, both small and large, throughout the text."

--James Diggle, Queens' College, Cambridge, The Classical

One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to be produced by hand and were subject to the hazards of fire, flood, and war. This book explains how the texts survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to spend the necessary effort to p...

You easily download any file type for your device.Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature   |  L. D. Reynolds, N. G. Wilson. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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