Friends of The Keep Archives (FoTKA) Zoom talk
Dr David Wright: From Manuscript to Print – the progress of writing and texts from classical inscriptions to illuminated manuscripts and the age of printing
It is easy to forget the often perilous transmission of ancient literature, from its initial writing down by way of fallible manuscript copying and the deliberate corruption of texts, to the revolution of moveable printing in the 1450s. But even then, how secure was an author’s text?
The talk covers the long journey from first-century inscriptions via the glories of illuminated manuscripts to the fourteenth century Humanist scholars and the age of printing.
From about 1750 the science of textual criticism occupied some of the most acute human minds in the restoration of corrupt texts. Centuries of laborious writing with quills came to an end only with the invention of the steel pen in 1828.
Dr David Wright is a classical scholar and a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Genealogists. He taught classics and palaeography at University College London after having completed his doctoral thesis on the text of Book 37 of Pliny’s Natural History.
Dr Wright is currently Principal of the Institute for Heraldic and Genealogical Studies at Canterbury.
Dr David Wright
This talk is free, and all are welcome.
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