was good.’

The manuscript shaped medieval literary conventions at all 
levels.

*     Hadas pursues this theme elsewhere in his excellent 
work. And it is taken up again for the medieval period by H. J. 
Chaytor in From Script to Print , a book to which the present 
one owes a good deal of its reason for being written.

          No one is likely to contest the statement that the 
     invention of printing and the development of that art 
     mark a turning-point in the history of civilization. Not so 
     readily appreciated is the fact that association with 
     printed matter has changed our views of literary art and 
     style, has introduced ideas concerning originality and