Inky fingers : the making of books in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton.
Inky fingers : the making of books in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton.
Inky fingers : the making of books in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/2761
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Language
English
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Physical content
379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Making book: the way of the humanists -- Humanists with inky finger -- Philologists wave divining rods -- Jean Mabillon invents paleography -- Polydore Vergin uncovers the Jewish origins of Christianity -- Matthew Parker makes an archive -- Francis Daniel Pastorius makes a notebook -- Annius of Vite...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
"Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands"...
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Inky fingers : the making of books in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/2761
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74VKadPO2zAM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadPO2zAM
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ISBN
067423717X hardcover
9780674237179 hardcover
DDC
094.2
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991024317388402626
