A history of the art of bookbinding : with some account of the books of the ancients (1894)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, editor, Hannett, John, 1803-1893 · London : E. Stock · leaf 57
but as mentioned byLicinius Macer, who states that linen books were kept in the temple of Juno Moneta.5They were not books in a restricted sense, but simply very ancient annals and booksof magistrates, and were written certainly as early as 440 B.C. Livy also speaks ofa Samnite ritual-book as liber… … {Fr, ANCIENT ROMAN READING. m a painting found at Pompe 1 Fabricius Biblical Antiq., chap, xix., p. 607. 2 Suetonius, Jul., 56. 3 Quoted by Birt, p. 444. 4 Smiths Diet, of Antiq., sub Liber. 5 Livy, iv. 7, 13, 20, 23. 6 Ibid., x. 38. BOOKS IN THE TIMES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS. 35 together in a…
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