Essays on manuscripts and rare books
By: by Cora E. Lutz.
Publisher: Archon Books
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Hamden, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval -- History; Rare books -- Bibliography; Literature, Medieval -- Manuscripts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early manuscript fragments: A manuscript fragment from Bedes Monastery. A manuscript of Charlemagne's Homiliarium. A bifolium from the Sacramentarium Gregorianum.; title: Medieval texts: A medieval textbook. Johannes Climacus' Ladder of divine ascent. Walter Burley's De vita et moribus philosophorum. The Apocryphal Abgarus; title: Jesus Epistles in England in the Middle Ages. A fourteenth-century argument for an international date line.; title: Renaissance scholarship: Note on St. Basil's Address on reading Greek literature. Aesticampianus' edition of the Tabula attributed to Cebes. Aesticampianus' commentary on the De grammatica of Martianus Capella.; title: Bishop Dubravius, Bohemian humanist: Bishop Dubravius on fishponds. A diamond and a Dürer in Dubravius' commentary on Martianus Capella. The Theriobulia of Jan Dubravius.; title: Early printed books: Manuscripts copied from printed books. An unusual educational device of Aldus Manutius.