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- Loss of texts during the Dark + Middle Ages most
have been small in comparison with what failed
to survive the end of classical antiquity. A text
that had been copied into a codex + lodged in a
monastic or capitular library had a chance of
coming though
- For reasons which are not entirely clear Christian
leterature, especially the Bible, was from the 1st,
whether written on papyrus or parchment, circulated
in the codex format. By the middle of the 4th C
the codex for all literary pruposes austed the
roll + parchiment had austed papyrus.
- Roman World - 3rd C. B.C. to early 5th C. A.D.
-Barlaam + Josaphat - a Christianized version of a
Buddhist legend - translated from the original Greek
into all of the European vernacular languages - tells
the story of a yound Indian prince named Josaphat
+ his introduction to Christianity by the monk Barlaam,
- ealriest known Greek inscriptions from about 730 BC -
likely, however, that hte Greeks were writing by
about 775 B.C.

The tradition of the colophon is much older than its
Greek name implies; it flourished in ancient
Mesopotamia + Egypt.
-earliest papyri with writing on them, were account
books about 250 BCE.

- An element of the Winchester style that remained popular with
the Normans was acanthus foliage - the acanthus being
a Mediteranean plant which was popular on boht sides
of the Channel from the 10th C. onwards as a
decorative detail.