The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 455
ocess of printing in movable t^-pe is c c 386 PRINTING. described by Cicero in a passage in which he refutes the doctrine of Epicuruson the creation of the world by atoms : *^ Why not believe, also, that bythrowing together, indiscriminately, innumerable forms of letters of thealphabet, either in… … / / / / / I //III ^ Fig. 338-—Ancient Wood-block Print, cut in Flanders before 1440, representing Jesus Christ after hisFlagellation. (Delbecqs Collection, Ghent.) only employed for teaching children to read, as Quintilian testifies in his Institutiones Oratoricae, and St. Jerome in his Epistles.…
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