The Reign of the Manuscript
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A knowledge as to the history of the individual letters (and each in- dividual letter of the alphabet has a history of its own, as to its genesis and development) and of the arrangement and the appearance of literary produc- tions is of the utmost significance in ascertaining the age, meaning, and value of ancient documents. The style of handwriting, also, has a large place in de- termining the time or period when a manuscript was written, even when the date is not affixed, just as the spelling... of words in our English tongue and the fashion of our typography ever fluctuating at the demand of artistic taste or attractive appear- ance helps to determine, in absence of the date of publication, the approximate time when a book was printed. Illustrative of this, the author once placed on his library shelves an attractive set of books which were represented at the time of purchase as "just from the press" but which he knew at the time were printed from plates made more than a dozen years before although they may have been "fresh from the press"; he knew it from the kind of type n8 The Reign of the Manuscript employed in their printing, or, more accurately speaking, he knew it from the peculiar quotation- marks used with that particular type, inasmuch as the style of quotation-marks used in those volumes had passed out of current use by printers and pub- lishers some years previously, having had but a feeble tenure of existence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A knowledge as to the history of the individual letters (and each in- dividual letter of the alphabet has a history of its own, as to its genesis and development) and of the arrangement and the appearance of literary produc- tions is of the utmost significance in ascertaining the age, meaning, and value of ancient documents. The style of handwriting, also, has a large place in de- termining the time or period when a manuscript was written, even when the date is not affixed, just as the spelling... of words in our English tongue and the fashion of our typography ever fluctuating at the demand of artistic taste or attractive appear- ance helps to determine, in absence of the date of publication, the approximate time when a book was printed. Illustrative of this, the author once placed on his library shelves an attractive set of books which were represented at the time of purchase as "just from the press" but which he knew at the time were printed from plates made more than a dozen years before although they may have been "fresh from the press"; he knew it from the kind of type n8 The Reign of the Manuscript employed in their printing, or, more accurately speaking, he knew it from the peculiar quotation- marks used with that particular type, inasmuch as the style of quotation-marks used in those volumes had passed out of current use by printers and pub- lishers some years previously, having had but a feeble tenure of existence.
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