Fig. 15 Ezra writing the Law. Frontispiece to the Codex Amiatinus. In the background is a press with open doors. The picture was probably drawn in the middle of the sixth century A.D.
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THE
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An Essay on the
Development of Libraries and
their Fittings, from the earliest times to
the end of the Eighteenth Century