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David McKitterick's Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830 describes the move from manuscript to book as a gradual process rather than a sudden revolution. According to the reviewer in the TLS, McKitterick points out that books and manuscripts were not separated in library catalogues or apparently in people's perceptions until the seventeenth century, when the printing press had been in use for two centuries. Further "There was no sudden break in the production of manuscript books in 1500 Ean impression reinforced by the arbitrary, if understandable, cut-off date in the modern catalogues of medieval manuscripts. Manuscript boks existed alongside printed books well into seventeenth-century England (and into the nineteenth century for Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, Italy, and Spain). If print did bring a radical change, it was a gradual one, evolving over two centuries."
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, April 19, 2004 at 03:28 PM
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