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"The crafte of lymmyng" and "The maner of steynyng" : Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and illuminators
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ISBN: 9780198789086 0198789084 Year: 2016 Volume: 347 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and many are previously unknown. The collection contains 125 sets of recipes (around 1500 individual recipes), taken from 95 manuscripts, and forms the largest published corpus of such recipes in any language. These anonymous craft recipes describe the preparation of materials, outline their uses, advise on decorative effects, and confide tricks of the trade. In addition to recipes for conventional painting and illuminating are a number for 'staining' (figurative painting on cloth) which provide the only practical information on this once widely-practised, but now lost, English medium. The editor also identifies for the first time the earliest surviving recipes for block printing on textiles. The recipes are professional in origin, but were subsequently taken over by amateurs and encyclopaedists. Household recipes for colouring wax, fishing lines, hair, and food complete the collection. Most of the texts were originally composed in English; few are translated from pre-existing material. They are a valuable record of Middle English technical vocabulary, much of it previously unrecorded.


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Papyrus : structure and usage
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ISBN: 0861590600 Year: 1986 Publisher: London : British Museum,


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The typology of the early codex
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ISBN: 0812276965 9781610970082 1512807869 9780812276961 Year: 1977 Volume: 18 Publisher: Pennsylvania University Press,


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Manuale di papirologia ercolanese
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ISBN: 8877863552 Year: 1991 Publisher: Galatina (Lecce) : Mario Congedo,

The myth of the paperless office.
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ISBN: 026269283X 0262194643 9780262283397 0262283395 0585446563 9780585446561 9780262194648 9780262692830 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) MIT press

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An examination of why paper continues to fill our offices and a proposal for better coordination of the paper and digital worlds.Over the past thirty years, many people have proclaimed the imminent arrival of the paperless office. Yet even the World Wide Web, which allows almost any computer to read and display another computer's documents, has increased the amount of printing done. The use of e-mail in an organization causes an average 40 percent increase in paper consumption. In The Myth of the Paperless Office, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper use the study of paper as a way to understand the work that people do and the reasons they do it the way they do. Using the tools of ethnography and cognitive psychology, they look at paper use from the level of the individual up to that of organizational culture.Central to Sellen and Harper's investigation is the concept of "affordances"--the activities that an object allows, or affords. The physical properties of paper (its being thin, light, porous, opaque, and flexible) afford the human actions of grasping, carrying, folding, writing, and so on. The concept of affordance allows them to compare the affordances of paper with those of existing digital devices. They can then ask what kinds of devices or systems would make new kinds of activities possible or better support current activities. The authors argue that paper will continue to play an important role in office life. Rather than pursue the ideal of the paperless office, we should work toward a future in which paper and electronic document tools work in concert and organizational processes make optimal use of both.


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Papier im mittelalterlichen Europa : Herstellung und Gebrauch
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ISBN: 9783110371369 3110371367 3110412985 3110371413 Year: 2015 Volume: 7 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Researchers view the switch from parchment to paper as an essential condition for the rapid rise in literacy in Europe during the Late Middle Ages. The first part of this volume focuses on medieval paper production in the mill districts in Northern Italy, Southwestern Germany, and Belgium. The second part examines the displacement of parchment by paper in administration and in book culture.


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Pouvoirs du papier.
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ISBN: 2070750299 9782070750290 Year: 1997 Volume: 4 Publisher: Paris : Gallimard,

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