AN APPRECIATION

CONTENTS

THE REIGN OF THE MANUSCRIPT

I THE EPOCHAL INVENTION OF PRINTING

II THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINTING PRESS

III THE PERIOD OF MANUSCRIPT LITERATURE

IV THE AMPLITUDE OF THE BIBLE IN MANUSCRIPT

V THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN LITERATURE

VI MATERIALS EMBODYING LITERATURE

VII VARIETIES AND CHANGES IN THE MATERIALS OF BOOKS

VIII PARCHMENT AND VELLUM

IX PAPYRUS

X PAPER AND ITS MANUFACTURE

XI OTHER MATERIALS OF LITERATURE

XII INKS

XIII IMPLEMENTS OF WRITING

XIV THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PALAEOGRAPHY

XV MECHANICAL AND ARTIFICIAL DEVICES OF LITERATURE

XVI SOURCES OF THE BOOK-MAKING INDUSTRY

XVII THE LITERARY PREEMINENCE OF ALEXANDRIA

XVIII VARYING FORTUNES OF THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY

XIX CONSTANTINOPLE THE LATER CENTER OF LITERATURE

XX MONASTERIES AND THE MONASTIC INSTITUTION

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

Transcribers' Notes

BY
PERRY WAYLAND SINKS, S.T.D.

Author of
"Popular Amusements and the Christian Life,"
"Jesus and the Children," "About Money,"
"Whittlers of the Word of God,"
"In the Refiner's Fire"

BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER
TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED

Copyright, 1917, by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved

Made in the United States of America
The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

TO OUR BELOVED SONS AND DAUGHTERS
OUR EARNEST CARE AND CROWN OF JOY