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The Lindisfarne Gospels | Janet Backhouse

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★★★★★

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The Lindisfarne Gospels | Janet Backhouse

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Lindisfarne Gospels by Janet Backhouse
📖 7 ½ Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts | Mary Wellesley

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Excellently researched and put together! Wellesley makes these fascinating treasures accessible for the modern reader. I enjoyed it, but it‘s not the sort of book where when I‘m done reading I feel inspired to go buy a copy for all my friends.

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The Book of Hours: With a Historical Survey and Commentary | John P. Harthan

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Book of Hours by John Harthan
📖 The Arthurian Book of Days: The Greatest Legend in the World Retold Throughout the Year by Caitlin & John Matthews

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Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance | Ross King

Front and center in the window of a bookstore near our hotel in Florence. So glad I read it (the English version!) before visiting.

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Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance | Ross King

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Vespasian became a bookmaker in Florence, Italy at a tender age and grew up to become the greatest bookseller and bookmaker at just the moment scribes and illuminators were being replaced by the printing press, a technology Vespasian refused to accept. He could find just about any book that existed in the known world for a discriminating buyer, or he could hire the best scribes and illuminators to transcribe (& translate) if need be for kings & ⬇️

Texreader the wealthy across the western world. His work was superior. A marvelous book describing the history of writing on papyrus to parchment to paper made of linen, of making the ink and colors, of the printing press and typesetting, and the creation of fonts. We learn about the work of scribes & talented illuminators to typesetters & printers. Extraordinarily interesting on the one hand, and boring on the other as the book covers the rise ⬇️ (edited) 11mo

Texreader and fall of the kings and rulers and the battles they fought—important because they were Vespasian‘s customers. He often found himself supplying manuscripts to people on both sides of conflicts. Sadly, that part of the book was tedious. Overall, a brilliant read and well-researched about a “common man” that we don‘t normally get to read about. (edited) 11mo

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Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance | Ross King

😂

If only all warfare was something like this.

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Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance | Ross King

Technology replacing manual labor (Vespasiano, the bookmaker, and his scribes and illuminators)

My first job was typesetting the town newspaper in about 1984 (Pflugerville‘s little paper for those littens who live there now) and putting the newspaper together with the columns of printed photographic paper, scissors, a light table, and wax. I was replaced by computers. Probably why I love paper crafts so much nowadays

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Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance | Ross King