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Essays on early manuscript fragments, medieval and renaissance texts, and early printed books, including the following:  A manuscript fragment from Bedes Monastery;  A manuscript of Charlemagne's Homiliarium;  A bifolium from the Sacramentarium Gregorianum;  Johannes Climacus' Ladder of divine ascent;  Walter Burley's ‘De vita et moribus philosophorum’;  The Apocryphal Abgarus-Jesus Epistles in England in the Middle Ages;  A fourteenth-century argument for an international date line;  Note on St. Basil's Address on reading Greek literature;  Aesticampianus' edition of the Tabula attributed to Cebes;  Bishop Dubravius on fishponds;  Manuscripts copied from printed books;  An unusual educational device of Aldus Manutius.  177 pages.  Include extensive bibliography.  Hardback in slightly discoloured dustjacket otherwise good clean condition.  Cat No 3879

£ 18.50

Cora Lutz

Archon Books

Good

Hardback

0208015132

1975

Theory & Practice: Ancient Books & Documents

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