De laude scriptorum
by Johannes Trithemius · first published 1494
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xi, 47 p. ; 29 cm
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Oh gosh, this takes me back. `De Laude Scriptorum' In praise of Scribes by Johannes Trithimeus, Abbotus of Spondheim Abbey, what now, something like 600 years ago! A delightful and informative early book celebrating this most beautiful and ergonomically…
on “Precious Ink – On handwriting” ↗Johannes Trithemius(1) Abbotus of Spondheim Abbey De Laude Scriptorum -`In Praise of Scribes' 1492 Praises why scratching ink on vellum by quill/point, is, among many other things, the better input device over this new Gutenberg press invention(~1436), improving both the…
on “Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts” ↗Cronus eats his children. In 1494, Johannes Trithemius printed De laude scriptorum, "In Praise of Scribes" assailing the development of the printing press. The same argument was made, but from the perspective of the manual scribe, that a printer doesn't understand a work as well as…
on “In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse” ↗