INDEX
Reading edition
A.
Aberdeen Breviary, 133–135.
Advertisements, early booksellers', 105.
Alcuin, 63, 64.
Aldus Manutius, 104, 113, 115, 151.
Aleria, Bp. of, 104.
Alexandria, 16, 30–32.
Alost, 117.
Alphabet, the, 10.
Amsterdam, 118.
Antiquarii, 49.
Antwerp, 144.
Arabs, the, 13.
Assyria, 12, 14, 30.
Assyrians, 11.
Augsburg, 104.
Aungervyle, R. (see Richard de Bury).
Ave Maria Lane, 52.
Avignon, 85.
B.
Babylonia, 12, 30, 145.
Babylonians, 11.
Bamberg, 75, 94, 103.
Basle, 104.
Benedict Biscop, 63.
Beowulf, 24.
Berthelet, Thomas, 156.
Bible, the, 17.
—— Mazarin or Gutenberg, 94–100.
—— thirty-six-line, 97.
—— Mentz, 1462, 102.
Biblia Pauperum, 74–77, 89.
Bibliothèque Nationale, 67, 68.
Bindings, 144, 159.
Block-books, 73, 80.
Block-printing, 71.
Bonhomme, Pasquier, 116.
Book of Durrow, 39.
—— Kells, 39–41.
—— St Albans, 25, 128, 131.
—— St Cuthbert (see Lindisfarne Gospels).
Book, production of modern, 159.
Bookbinding, 144–159.
Books, adventures of, 144.
—— beginning of, 10.
—— chained, 58, 69, 70.
—— heretical, 22.
—— in classical times, 26.
—— in monasteries, 21–24, 47, 145.
—— not to be destroyed, 22.
—— ornamenting of, 37.
—— prices of, 50, 53.
—— sizes of, 161.
Booksellers, 28, 29, 51–54.
Bordesley Abbey, 68.
Breslau, 104.
Brethren of the Common Life, 117.
Breviary, Aberdeen, 133–135.
Bruges, 52, 104, 116, 117, 119–122.
Brussels, 117.
“Brussels” Print, 73.
Byzantium, 18, 34.
C.
Caedmon, 24.
Cambridge, 58, 130, 139, 145.
Campanus, 104, 108.
Canterbury, 45, 61, 63.
Carrells, 57.
Carswell's Prayer-book, 137.
Catalogues, early booksellers', 105.
—— monastic library, 59–61.
Catechism, Irish Alphabet and, 137, 139–144.
Caxton, 85, 105–107, 116–126, 128, 154.
Censorship, Ecclesiastical, 54, 55.
—— University, 54.
Chelsea, 70.
Chepman, Walter, 133.
China, 14, 71, 81.
Clairvaux Abbey, 57.
Clement of Padua, 110, 111.
Clugni, Abbey of, 60.
Cologne, 103, 104, 121.
Colophons, 108.
Copyists, 27, 28, 31, 32, 49, 51, 52.
Copyright, 28.
Corvey, Abbot of, 65.
Coster, Laurenz, 80, 82–89.
Cranz, Martin, 115.
Creed Lane, 53.
Cumhdachs, 146, 147.
D.
Davidson, Thomas, 135.
Dictes or Sayengis, 122, 126.
Diemudis, 49.
Donatus, 78, 79, 112.
Dorchester, 50.
Dublin, 109, 137–139, 141, 146.
Durham, 45, 61, 148.
E.
Edinburgh, 109, 110, 131, 133, 135, 137, 138.
Egypt, 12, 14, 18, 20, 21, 29–31, 71.
Electrotype plates, printing from, 162.
Elizabeth, Queen, 125, 141, 142, 154.
Elzevirs, the, 117, 118.
England, 23, 36, 104, 106, 118.
F.
Faust or Fust, 88, 92, 93, 100, 102, 103.
Fichet, Guillaume, 115.
Florence, 104.
Fountains Abbey, 57.
France, 23, 77, 78, 104, 115, 131, 133, 151, 152.
Friburger, Michael, 115.
G.
Game and Playe of the Chesse, 122, 124.
Gering, Ulric, 115.
Germany, 23, 65, 72, 77, 83, 104, 106, 116.
Glastonbury Abbey, 60.
Gloucester, 58.
Greece, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 30.
Greeks, the, 11.
Grolier, Jean, 151, 152.
Guild of St John the Evangelist, 52.
Gutenberg, 82–85, 89–92, 101, 102.
H.
Haarlem, 80–82, 85–87, 116.
Hahn, Ulric, 104, 108, 109, 112.
Herculaneum, 18.
Hereford Cathedral, 70.
Holborn, 128, 138.
Holland, 75, 77, 80, 83, 89, 104, 116, 119, 128, 131.
Hostingue, Laurence, 131, 132.
I.
Illuminators, 49, 51, 52.
Ireland, 36, 38, 104, 138, 146.
Irish Alphabet and Catechism, 137, 139, 143.
Italy, 22, 23, 36, 77, 104, 106, 110, 111, 113, 150, 151.
Italic type, 114.
J.
Japan, 71, 81.
Jenson, Nicolas, 107, 113, 130.
Junius, Hadrian, 88.
K.
Kelmscott press, 80.
Ketelaer, Nycolaum, 116.
Kirkstall Abbey, 57.
Klosterneuburg, 75.
Koburger, Antony, 106, 154.
L.
Lanfranc, 47.
Latin document, earliest, 15.
Latin names of towns, 109.
Leempt, Gerard de, 116.
Lettou, John, 126.
Leicester, 61.
Lekprevik, Roibeard, 137, 138.
Leland, 61.
Leyden, 118.
Libraries, ancient, 28–36.
—— collegiate, 58.
—— monastic, 56–65.
Librarii, 16, 49.
Lignamine, J. P. de, 111.
Lindisfarne Gospels, 42–45, 147.
Lincoln Cathedral, 143, 144.
Literature, Anglo-Saxon, 24.
—— beginning of, 13.
—— of Greece, 14, 15, 19.
Literatures, antique, 14.
London, 51, 52, 54, 104, 109, 110, 120, 127, 148.
Louvain, 117, 118, 144.
Lubeck, 104.
Lyons, 104, 115.
M.
Machlinia, William de, 109, 128.
Maioli, Thomasso, 151, 152.
Mansion, Colard, 116, 117, 121, 122.
Manuscript, oldest Biblical, 17.
—— oldest Homeric, 17.
—— oldest New Testament, 18, 20.
Manuscripts, Arabic, 21.
—— Arabic-Spanish, 56.
—— Byzantine, 37.
—— Classical, 17, 20.
—— Coptic, 21.
—— of Four Gospels, 19.
—— Greek, 14, 15, 18.
—— Hiberno-Saxon, 43.
—— Illuminated, 36–46.
—— Irish, 37, 39–41, 44.
—— Italian, 37.
—— Moorish, 56.
—— printed illustrations in, 73.
—— Syriac, 21.
—— Winchester, 45.
—— of Virgil, 19.
Marienthal, 117.
Mentelin, John, 105.
Mentz, 82, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 96–98, 100, 101, 109, 117, 121.
Monasteries, books in, 21–24, 145, 146.
Monastic writing, 15, 19, 21, 22, 24, 46, 47, 49.
Morris, William, 80.
Musical notes printed, 103, 128.
Myllar, Andrew, 131–135.
N.
Naples, 104.
Netley Abbey, 57.
New Testament, 17, 22.
Nineveh, 14.
Nuremberg, 104, 106, 117.
O.
O'Kearney, John, 139, 141–143.
Old Testament, 12, 14, 17.
Omar, Caliph, 33.
Oxford, 53, 58, 62, 64, 65, 104, 130.
Oxyrhynchus, 20.
P.
Paternoster Row, 51, 52.
Palestine, 21.
Palimpsests, 24.
Pannartz (see Sweynheim).
Papyrus, 12.
Paris, 53, 62, 75, 93, 104, 106, 107, 109, 144.
—— Council of, 62.
Philobiblon, 15, 47, 48.
Peterborough, 61.
Petrarch, 23, 68, 113.
Pfister, Albrecht, 94, 95.
Poggio Bracciolini, 23.
Powell, Humfrey, 138.
Printed illustrations in MSS., 73.
Printers as editors and publishers, 104.
—— as booksellers, 105.
—— as bookbinders, 154.
Printing, 11, 70–144.
—— in colours, 102.
—— machines for, 161, 162, 164.
Psalter, Melissenda's, 148–150.
—— Mentz, 1457, 102.
—— Queen Mary's, 46.
Publication, mediæval, 51.
Publishers, 51, 104.
Pye or Pica, 105.
Pynson, Richard, 107.
R.
“R” Printer, 107.
Ramsey Abbey, 61.
Reichenau Abbey, 60.
Richard de Bury, 23, 47, 50, 64, 65, 68.
Romans, 11.
Rome, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 28, 103, 104, 106, 108, 109, 111, 112, 131.
Rood, Theodore, 130.
Rostock, 117.
Rouen, 106, 131.
Royal Library of England, 68, 155.
—— of France, 67.
S.
Satchels or Polaires, 145, 146.
Schoeffer, Peter, 93, 94, 100, 102, 105.
Scandinavians, 11.
Scotland, 104, 131, 147.
Seraglio library, 34, 35.
Sopwell, 131.
Spain, 23, 104.
Speculum Humanæ Salvationis, 78–80, 88, 89, 92.
Spira, John de, 109, 112, 130.
—— Vindelinus de, 110, 113.
Spires, 104.
—— John of (see Spira).
St Albans, 104, 130, 131.
St Andrews, 138.
St Boniface, 37.
St Columba, 41, 145.
“St Christopher” Print, 72.
St Gall, Abbey of, 23, 60.
St Paul's Cathedral, 52.
Stationers, 51, 154.
—— Company of, 51.
Stereotype plates, printing from, 162.
Stirling, 138.
Story, John, 135.
Strasburg, 89, 90, 92, 93, 103, 105, 107, 110.
Subiaco, 103, 111.
Sweynheim and Pannartz, 103, 104, 107, 111, 112.
T.
Tablets, 11, 12, 145.
The Hague, 118.
Theodore, Abp., 45, 63.
Therhoernen, Arnold, 109, 110.
Tintern Abbey, 57.
Titchfield Abbey, 58, 59.
Title-page, 107–109.
Tooling, 150.
Type or Types, Aldino, 113, 114.
—— Caxton's, 126.
—— Early, 107.
—— Gaelic or Irish, 139, 141–143.
—— Gothic, 107, 115.
—— Greek, 103.
—— Italic, 114.
—— Moveable, 81–89.
—— Roman, 107, 115.
—— Subiaco, 112.
—— Scottish printers', 135, 136.
—— Wood and metal, 106, 107.
U.
Ulm, 104.
Usher, John, 141.
Utrecht, 117, 118.
V.
Veldener, John, 117.
Venice, 68, 104, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 130.
Vienna, 75.
Virgil, Aldine, 114, 115, 152.
W.
Waldfoghel, Procopius, 85.
Walsh, Nicholas, 141, 142.
Westminster, 104, 117, 121–123, 128.
Whitby, 60.
Wimborne Minster, 70.
Winchester, 45, 50, 62, 148.
Woodcuts, early English, 124.
Worcester, 57.
Writers of Text Letter, 51.
Writing, 10, 11.
Wynkyn de Worde, 121, 128, 131.
Z.
Zel, Ulric, 103.
Zutphen, 70.
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