ARHI 203 Lecture 13: Lecture 13 (Guest Lecture)
9 Jul 2016
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Manuscript: a document that is written by hand [manu = by hand; scriptus = written] can take the form of scroll or codex (book) writing surfaces: papyrus, parchment, vellum, birch bark, leaves, paper https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=1adhju9j10o. The making of the lindisfarne gospel (c. 700) Printed books movable type and printing press rst used successfully in europe by johannes. What did gutenberg do? before 1440, only a few thousand handwritten texts existed across europe. Making the gutenberg bible (c 1455) the typesetting and printing took over 2 yrs would"ve taken a scribe 3 yrs to make one copy by hand. Gutenberg made 180 copies (150 on paper, 30 on vellum) skilled workers could produce a page every 20 seconds. :) of printing press and movable type books produced faster and eventually more cheaply encouraged the standardization of language printing press itself wan"t that expensive most of cost of making a book was paper. 1440s-50s: rst press set up in mainz, germany by gutenberg.
