The Oxford Companion to the Book is the first reference work of its kind covering the broad concept of the book throughout the world from [...]

The 26 Oriental manuscripts (41 treatises) now at St John's College, Oxford, reflect the varying ways in which Europeans have sought to make themselves familiar [...]

St John's College owns one of the largest collegiate collections of medieval manuscripts in Oxford. Ranging from the early eleventh century to the early sixteenth [...]

This book is a unique record of one of the great monuments of Romanesque painting, reconstructing the lost monumental cycle of paintings at the Chapter [...]

Although the history of the book is a booming area of research, the journeymen who printed books in the sixteenth century have remained shadowy figures [...]

Represents a major contribution to the study of the history of the book. Catalogues the world's fifth largest collection of fifteenth-century western printed [...]

In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University [...]

The Spacious Word explores the history of Iberian expansion into the Americas as seen through maps and cartographic literature, and considers the relationship between early [...]

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam [...]

Over the course of ten centuries, Islam developed a rich written heritage that is visible in paintings, calligraphies, and manuscripts. This title explores this aspect [...]