Essays on manuscripts and rare books /
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Hamden, Conn :
Archon Books,
1975.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Early manuscript fragments: A manuscript fragment from Bedes Monastery. A manuscript of Charlemagne's Homiliarium. A bifolium from the Sacramentarium Gregorianum
- Medieval texts: A medieval textbook. Johannes Climacus' Ladder of divine ascent. Walter Burley's De vita et moribus philosophorum. The Apocryphal Abgarus--Jesus Epistles in England in the Middle Ages. A fourteenth-century argument for an international date line
- Renaissance scholarship: Note on St. Basil's Address on reading Greek literature. Aesticampianus' edition of the Tabula attributed to Cebes. Aesticampianus' commentary on the De grammatica of Martianus Capella
- Bishop Dubravius, Bohemian humanist: Bishop Dubravius on fishponds. A diamond and a Durer in Dubravius' commentary on Martianus Capella. The Theriobulia of Jan Dubravius
- Early printed books: Manuscripts copied from printed books. An unusual educational device of Aldus Manutius.