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Aquinas explains why Socrates, Christ, and Pythagoras avoided
the publication of their teachings.
* Hajnal then notes (p. 76) an aspect of personal
bookmaking that gives needed insight into a characteristic
mode of manuscript culture. Not only did it foster minute
textual attention, meditation in depth, and much
memorization:
The old traditional manuals, mostly stemming from late
antiquity, were always to hand for the professors, but
they could see little point in recopying them ad infinitum.
To learn and to teach every day, individual by individual,
adjusting the work to the preparation of each, they
proceeded to condense and to simplify the matter taught
in order to facilitate its study and to present it in a