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generations.
The medieval book trade was a second-hand trade even as with
the dealing today in old masters.
* Then, from the twelfth century onwards the rise of the
universities brought masters and students into the field of
book production in class time, and these books found their way
back to the monastic libraries when students returned after
completing their studies: “A number of these standard
textbooks, of which approved exemplars were kept for copying
by the stationarii of the universities, naturally found their way
into print quite early, for many of them continued in
undiminished request in the fifteenth century as before. These
official university texts offer no problems of origin or
nomenclature. . .” (p. 102) Goldschmidt then adds, “Soon after