Seated scribe writing in library – Historic Reproduction
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Seated scribe writing in library, a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A scribe sits at a sloping desk in a library, pen in hand, in this woodcut illustration for *La Mer des Hystoires*, a French universal chronicle from the incunabula period, the years before 1501 when printing with movable type was new. The image shows a scholarly trade that printing was beginning to replace, since books had long been copied by hand. Woodcuts like this one were often reused across several editions, so the same block might appear in different books. The caption card for this print records no date, and its details are unverified.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: La Mer des Hystoires. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Scholars; Libraries; Occupations--Scribes; Incunabula; Rare Book Division; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 900 × 1,125 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106500 |
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