home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
08671_Field_TCGG T436.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
783b
|
16 lines
the anonymity and ambiguity of authorship of so many of
our medieval texts. (p. 92)
Not only was the assembly of the parts of the book often
a collective scribal affair, but librarians and users of books took
a large hand in composition since small books which only took
a few pages, could never be transmitted except in volumes of
miscellaneous content. “These volumes comprising many
pieces, which probably constituted the majority of the books in
the library, were created as units not by the authors or even by
the scribes but by the librarians or bookbinders (very often
identical).” (p. 94)
Goldschmidt then points out (pp. 96­7) many other
circumstances of pre-print bookmaking and using that
rendered authorship very secondary: