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  2. Chapbook - Wikipedia

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    The chapbook Jack the Giant Killer. A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was a popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe. Chapbooks were usually produced cheaply, illustrated with crude woodcuts and printed on a single sheet folded into 8, 12, 16, or 24 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch ...

  3. Fragmentology (manuscripts) - Wikipedia

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    Scholars strongly condemn this practice, even where the manuscript is incomplete to begin with, as it destroys the integrity and evidence of the entire manuscript. The most famous or infamous manuscript breaker was Otto Ege , who dismembered many complete and fragmentary manuscripts to sell the leaves individually or in large boxed collections.

  4. Textual criticism - Wikipedia

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    Textual criticism has been practiced for over two thousand years, as one of the philological arts. [4] Early textual critics, especially the librarians of Hellenistic Alexandria in the last two centuries BC, were concerned with preserving the works of antiquity, and this continued through the Middle Ages into the early modern period and the invention of the printing press.

  5. Illuminated manuscript - Wikipedia

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    An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws ...

  6. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    Reading comprehension and vocabulary are inextricably linked together. The ability to decode or identify and pronounce words is self-evidently important, but knowing what the words mean has a major and direct effect on knowing what any specific passage means while skimming a reading material.

  7. Manuscript culture - Wikipedia

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    In early medieval manuscript culture, monks copied manuscripts by hand. They copied not just religious works, but a variety of texts including some on astronomy, herbals, and bestiaries. [1] Medieval manuscript culture deals with the transition of the manuscript from the monasteries to the market in the cities, and the rise of universities.

  8. Outline of books - Wikipedia

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    Chapbook – an early type of cheap popular literature printed in early modern Europe in booklet format; Tract – booklets used for religious and political purposes; Boxed Set – a compilation of books packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit; Braille book – a book that is traditionally written with embossed paper for the blind or ...

  9. Category:Chapbooks - Wikipedia

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    In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C.