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BOOKS AND READERS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME by FREDERIC G. KENYON.
Originally published in 1932. PREFACE: THIS book is the outcome of
a course of three lectures which I was invited by the University of
London to deliver at King's College in March 1932. The material has
been slightly expanded, but the general scale of treatment has not
been altered. It does not claim to replace the standard works on
ancient book-production, but to supple ment them, and that
especially with regard to the period during which papyrus was the
principal material in use. It is in respect of this period that our
knowledge has increased in the course of the last two generations.
The object of this book is to bring together and make available for
students the results of these discoveries. In particular, use has
been made of the remarkable collection of papyrus codloss .
recently acquired by Mr. A. Chester Beatty, which has greatly
extended our knowledge of this transitional form of book, which
appears to have had a special vogue among the Christian community
in Egypt. Although the subject of the book is primarily
bibliographical, namely, the methods of book-con struction from the
date of Homer ( whenever that may have been) until the supersession
of papyrus. . in the fourth centur f yJLera ne of vi Preface its
main objects has been to show the bearings of the material and form
of books on literary history and criticism, and to consider what
new light has been thrown by recent research on the origin and
growth of the habit of reading in ancient Greece and Rome. F. G. K.
Contents include: I. THE USE OF BOOKS IN ANCIENT GREECE i II. THE
PAPYRUS ROLL . . . .38 III. BOOKS AND READING AT ROME . 73 IV.
VELLUM AND THECODEX . . . 86 APPENDIX 120 INDEX . . . . . .134 LIST
OF ILLUSTRATIONS A poetess with tablets. and stylus. Naples
Museum-Photograph, Anderson . . . Facing page 16 A papyrus roll
open. British Museum . 40 Papyrus roll before opening. British
Museum 48 Teacher and students with rolls. Treves Museum.
Photograph, Giraudon . . . Facing page 56 A book-box ( capsa)
containing rolls with sillybi page 59 A reader holding a roll of
papyrus . . 64 Roman inkpots. British Museum . Facing page 74 Roman
pens and styli. British Museum 80 A papyrus codex. Heidelberg
University Between pages 88 and 89. THE USE OF BOOKS IN ANCIENT
GREECE. UNTIL within a comparatively recent period, which may be
measured by the lifetime of persons still living, our information
with regard to the physical formation and the habitual use of books
in ancient Greece and Rome was singularly scanty. Our ancestors
were dependent on casual allusions in Greek and Latin authors,
intelligible enough to those for whom they were written, but not
intended for the information of distant ages, and in no case
amounting to formal descriptions.
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