CHAPTER PAGE
I THE EPOCHAL INVENTION OF PRINTING 11
II THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINTING PRESS 16
III THE PERIOD OF MANUSCRIPT LITERATURE 19
IV THE AMPLITUDE OF THE BIBLE IN MANUSCRIPT 33
V THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN LITERATURE 40
VI MATERIALS EMBODYING LITERATURE 46
VII VARIETIES AND CHANCES IN THE MATERIALS OF BOOKS 55
VIII PARCHMENT AND VELLUM 59
IX PAPYRUS 66
X PAPER AND ITS MANUFACTURE 72
XI OTHER MATERIALS OF LITERATURE 78
XII INKS 83
XIII IMPLEMENTS OF WRITING 87
XIV THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PALÆOGRAPHY 89
1 THE HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING 92
2 THE CUNEIFORM WRITING 99
3 THE ALPHABETIC WRITING 104
4 THE CLASSIC WRITING 112
5 THE TWO GREAT STAGES OF CLASSIC WRITING 113
6 THE ANGLO-SAXON WRITING 115
7 PALÆOGRAPHY AND THE DATE OF LITERARY PRODUCTIONS 117
XV MECHANICAL AND ARTIFICIAL DEVICES OF LITERATURE 120
XVI SOURCES OF THE BOOK-MAKING INDUSTRY 127
XVII THE LITERARY PREËMINENCE OF ALEXANDRIA 133
XVIII VARYING FORTUNES OF THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY 143
XIX CONSTANTINOPLE THE LATER CENTER OF LITERATURE 146
XX MONASTERIES AND THE MONASTIC INSTITUTION 154
INDEX 172