Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book Before Gutenberg
by Giulia Bologna
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"Presents more than one thousand years of late Roman, medieval, and Renaissance manuscripts, along with an accompanying history of paper and writing implements, the most important artists of illumination, and the development of the book trade." -- From Amazon.Tags
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The book is divided into 3 parts: 40 pages of text with B/W photos on the development of the book from scrolls to Gutenberg, 120 pages of illuminated works in color, and finally, 60 pages describing collections in various libraries of the world.
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Common Knowledge
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- Gutenberg, Johannes, 1394/99-ca. 1468
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- Nonfiction, Art & Design, History
- DDC/MDS
- 002 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Books (Science and history of the book)
- LCC
- Z6 .B6513 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources Books (General). Writing. Paleography History of books and bookmaking
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- Languages
- English, Italian
- Media
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- ISBNs
- 3
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