Part 3 (2/2)

Books and Their Makers in the Middle Ages. Vol. I. G. H. Putnam.

Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh Edition.

Articles: Alphabet (very scholarly and in large part suitable only for very advanced students.) Paleography.

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Book.

Libraries.

Bookbinding.

Bookselling.

Papyrus.

Paper.

Ink, and many others which will suggest themselves during the study of the articles named.

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Name some of the earliest devices for communicating ideas to the absent.

2. What was the most important of these devices, and why?

3. What is an ideogram?

4. What is a phonogram?

5. Tell how phonograms became alphabets.

6. Who were the Egyptians and what kind of characters did they use?

7. Who were the a.s.syrio-Babylonians and what kind of characters did they use?

8. Who were the Cretans and what kind of characters did they use?

9. Who invented the alphabet?

10. Where did they get the material for the alphabet?

11. What is papyrus, and how was it made?

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