The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : F. Hart · leaf 165
t Friars,which, in its earlier days,was wonderfully popular.Founded for the purposeof supplying the spiritualadministrations which hadbeen sadly neglected bythe beneficed clergy, whowere not only ignorant but corrupt,1 the new order ultimately 1 Wicklifie says that, in 1380, ne understand a verse… … Book-Cover in Ivory, Byzantine Style. [From Berjeau.] THE BOOK-MAKERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 159 became even more neglectful of duty, more ignorant and moreimmoral. The leaders of the friars were men of piety, andsome of them, disregarding the precept of the zealous founderof the order, were students…
Printing -- History Origin and antecedents
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