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... copying from dictation , but much less so in the case of visual copying , since the scribe would have nothing on which to rest his exemplar , nor would he have two hands free with which to manipulate it . This point has in fact been ...
... copying from dictation , but much less so in the case of visual copying , since the scribe would have nothing on which to rest his exemplar , nor would he have two hands free with which to manipulate it . This point has in fact been ...
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... copying was just as quick as copying from dictation . Assuming that a certain work could be copied in six hours , thirty scribes working to the dicta- tion of one reader would produce thirty copies at the expense of 186 man - hours ...
... copying was just as quick as copying from dictation . Assuming that a certain work could be copied in six hours , thirty scribes working to the dicta- tion of one reader would produce thirty copies at the expense of 186 man - hours ...
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... copying is quicker than copying from dictation , that dictation to a number of scribes simultaneously would not effect any saving of time ( here he presumably echoes Ohly's argument which we have dealt with in detail above ) , and that ...
... copying is quicker than copying from dictation , that dictation to a number of scribes simultaneously would not effect any saving of time ( here he presumably echoes Ohly's argument which we have dealt with in detail above ) , and that ...
Contents
ANNUAL REPORT 19556 | 5 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir George Clark | 17 |
THE NATURE Of Recitative Aspects of Art Lecture By J A Westrup | 27 |
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