An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography. To which is Prefixed, a Memoir on the Public Libraries of the Antients. Illustrated with Engravings, Volumes 1-2 |
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... Senna in Arabia ; others have heard that it came from Cashmire . The Cabul 1 1812 . Peignot , Essai sur l'Histoire du Parchemin et Velin , Paris , Jews , who travel annually into the interior of China FOR WRITING . 47.
... Senna in Arabia ; others have heard that it came from Cashmire . The Cabul 1 1812 . Peignot , Essai sur l'Histoire du Parchemin et Velin , Paris , Jews , who travel annually into the interior of China FOR WRITING . 47.
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... treatise on this fossil ; of which four copies were taken off on Asbes- tos paper . Peignot , Essai sur l'Histoire du Parchemin , p . 2 , note . 4 Vol . xiv . pp . 823 , 824 . sort of paper , however , is very brittle and 60 MATERIALS USED.
... treatise on this fossil ; of which four copies were taken off on Asbes- tos paper . Peignot , Essai sur l'Histoire du Parchemin , p . 2 , note . 4 Vol . xiv . pp . 823 , 824 . sort of paper , however , is very brittle and 60 MATERIALS USED.
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... said to be still carried on , to a considerable extent , in the Levant . S 9. PAPER FROM LINEN RAGS . - This sort of Peignot , Essais sur Parchemin , p . 15 . 1 It paper is fabricated and used throughout Europe , and FOR WRITING . 63.
... said to be still carried on , to a considerable extent , in the Levant . S 9. PAPER FROM LINEN RAGS . - This sort of Peignot , Essais sur Parchemin , p . 15 . 1 It paper is fabricated and used throughout Europe , and FOR WRITING . 63.
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... Essai sur l'Histoire de Parchemin , p . 83 , et seq . * Palæogr . pp . 231 , 233. The greater part of the MSS . on parchment , which Montfaucon had seen , he affirms , were written on parchment , from which some former treatise had ...
... Essai sur l'Histoire de Parchemin , p . 83 , et seq . * Palæogr . pp . 231 , 233. The greater part of the MSS . on parchment , which Montfaucon had seen , he affirms , were written on parchment , from which some former treatise had ...
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... . de l'Acad . des Inscript . tom . ix . p . 325 . Muratori , Antiq . Ital . tom . iii . Dissert . 43. col . 833 , 834 . 2 Peignot , Essai sur Parchemin , p . 85 . is difficult to form phrases ; it seems however to 114 CODEX RESCRIPTUS .
... . de l'Acad . des Inscript . tom . ix . p . 325 . Muratori , Antiq . Ital . tom . iii . Dissert . 43. col . 833 , 834 . 2 Peignot , Essai sur Parchemin , p . 85 . is difficult to form phrases ; it seems however to 114 CODEX RESCRIPTUS .
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Page 579 - The example of the Roman pontiff was preceded or imitated by a Florentine merchant, who governed the republic without arms and without a title. Cosmo of Medicis was the father of a line of princes, whose name and age are almost synonymous with the restoration of learning: his credit was ennobled into fame ; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind ; he corresponded at once with Cairo and London : and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books was often imported in the same vessel.
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