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The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts is the title of this book. To have called it the survival and transmission of ancient literature would have been pretentious, but not wholly untruthful. Manuscripts, we all know, are the chief means by which the records and imaginings of twenty centuries have been preserved. It is my purpose to tell where manuscripts were made, and how and in what centres they have been collected, and, incidentally, to suggest some helps for tracing out their history. Naturally the few pages into which the story has to be packed will not give room for any one episode to be treated exhaustively. Enough if I succeed in rousing curiosity and setting some student to work in a field in which an immense amount still remains to be discovered. In treating of so large a subject as this—for it is a large one—it is not a bad plan to begin with the particular and get gradually to the general.
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M.R. James spent 35 years writing and editing material for Bowhunter magazine, which he founded in 1971.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1500444308
- ISBN 13 9781500444303
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages42
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