The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 581
of which printed editions already existed wereso universally disregarded, that we must refer to this period the destruc-tion of a large number. They were used, when written on parchment, forbinding the new books; and to this circumstance may be attributed the lossof certain celebrated works which… … Fig. 39S.—Fac-simile of a page of a Livre dHeuics printed in Paris, in 1512,by Simon Vostre. PRINTING. 5 not less active in Venice, where it seems to have been imported by thatNicholas Jenson whom Louis XI. had sent to Gutenberg, and whom for along time even the Venetians looked on as the inventor…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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