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the manuscript market was mainly a second-hand market.
Scribal culture could have neither authors nor publics such as
were created by typography.
* Although we have seen with Hajnal a good deal about
the scribal making of books, the assumptions and attitudes of
authors about books and readers has not been looked at. Since
it was precisely these assumptions that were to undergo very
great changes, it is necessary to specify them, however
succinctly. For this purpose the work of E. P. Goldschmidt,
Medieval Texts and Their First Appearance in Print , is
indispensable. His study of the habits and procedures of
authorship under manuscript conditions leads him to conclude
(p. 116):