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Incunabula - the 40,000 editions contain the accumulated wisdom
- and stupidities - of the previous 2000 years.
75% printed in Latin - of vernacular books - about = German + Italian

1) invention of writing (about 3000 - 2500 BC in Sumeria + Egypt, about
1500 BC in China) - Near + Far East
2) invention of the alphabet by the phoenicians in about 1200 BC
- Mediteranean area
3) Printing - European discoveries
4)Computer - Spacesignatures - a German invention - usual practice was to mark
the gatherings with small letters + the sheets of the gatherings
with Roman numerals very often however with gothic letters.
register - index
catchwords - the reproducing of the 1st word of a new
page at the foot of the preceding - occur exceptionally
in incunabula + only during the last years of the 15th C.
- were placed only at the end of gatherings or like
signatures at the end of the double sheets.
Pagination was preceded by the insertion of catchwords. Such
catchwords occur for the 1st time in the Tacitus printed by
John of Spier at Venice in 1469.

Signature the letter or figure appearing on the 1st page
of a sheet (usually of 16 or 32 pages) which acts as a
guide in gathering the sheets before binding.

font (fount) derived from the same root as teh verb found
meaning to melt + pour metal.

Between 1513 + 1524, eight varieties of Fraktur Type were
cut 1) (Fraktur, meaning "broken", is the 4th of the bastarda
or vernacular types used in Germany, the other being
2) Schwabacker, 3) Upper Rhine + 4) Wittenberg.)

Colophon - The final closing stone - Greek Temple.
Sheepskin - parchmetn
Calfskin - Vellum - still born calf uterine vellum - finest
2 thinest.

Incunabula - the 40,000 editions contain the accumulated wisdom
- and stupidities - of the previous 2000 years.
75% printed in Latin - of vernacular books - about = German + Italian

1) invention of writing (about 3000 - 2500 BC in Sumeria + Egypt, about
1500 BC in China) - Near + Far East
2) invention of the alphabet by the phoenicians in about 1200 BC
- Mediteranean area
3) Printing - European discoveries
4)Computer - Spacesignatures - a German invention - usual practice was to mark
the gatherings with small letters + the sheets of the gatherings
with Roman numerals very often however with gothic letters.
register - index
catchwords - the reproducing of the 1st word of a new
page at the foot of the preceding - occur exceptionally
in incunabula + only during the last years of the 15th C.
- were placed only at the end of gatherings or like
signatures at the end of the double sheets.
Pagination was preceded by the insertion of catchwords. Such
catchwords occur for the 1st time in the Tacitus printed by
John of Spier at Venice in 1469.

Signature the letter or figure appearing on the 1st page
of a sheet (usually of 16 or 32 pages) which acts as a
guide in gathering the sheets before binding.

font (fount) derived from the same root as teh verb found
meaning to melt + pour metal.

Between 1513 + 1524, eight varieties of Fraktur Type were
cut 1) (Fraktur, meaning "broken", is the 4th of the bastarda
or vernacular types used in Germany, the other being
2) Schwabacker, 3) Upper Rhine + 4) Wittenberg.)

Colophon - The final closing stone - Greek Temple.
Sheepskin - parchmetn
Calfskin - Vellum - still born calf uterine vellum - finest
2 thinest.