Books and their makers during the Middle Ages

by George Haven Putnam

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
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 theExchange 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 FirstPrinters 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]

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

WORKS CITED OR REFERRED TO AS AUTHORITIES.

Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities. By Gabriel Compayré. New York, 1893.

Actes Concernants le Pouvoir, etc., de l’Université de Paris. Paris, 1698.