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CONTENTS.

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Preface   v
Bibliography  xvii
PART I.—BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT.
Introductory   3
I.—The Making of Books in the Monasteries 16
 Cassiodorus and S. Benedict 17
 The Earlier Monkish Scribes 30
 The Ecclesiastical Schools and the Clerics as Scribes 36
 Terms Used for Scribe-Work 42
 S. Columba, the Apostle to Caledonia 45
 Nuns as Scribes 51
 Monkish Chroniclers 55
 The Work of the Scriptorium 61
 The Influence of the Scriptorium 81
 The Literary Monks of England 90
 The Earlier Monastery Schools 106
 The Benedictines of the Continent 122
 The Libraries of the Monasteries and Their Arrangements for the Exchange of Books 133
II.—Some Libraries of the Manuscript Period 146
 Public Libraries 161
 Collections by Individuals 170
III.—The Making of Books in the Early Universities 178
IV.—The Book-Trade in the Manuscript Period 225
 Italy 225
 Books in Spain 253
 The Manuscript Trade in France 255
 Manuscript Dealers in Germany 276
 The Manuscript Period in England 302
PART II.—THE EARLIER PRINTED BOOKS.
I.—The Renaissance as the Forerunner of the Printing-Press 317
II.—The Invention of Printing and the Work of the First Printers of Holland and Germany 348
III.—The Printer-Publishers of Italy, 1464-1600 403
 Aldus Manutius 417
 The Successors of Aldus 440
 Milan 445
 Lucca and Foligno 455
 Florence 456
 Genoa 458
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