[Medieval monks reading and writing; advertisement in WIllim of Ockham DIALOGUS, 1494?] – Vintage Print
![[Medieval monks reading and writing; advertisement in WIllim of Ockham DIALOGUS, 1494?], 1965 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2f/2f255aa391d3-L.webp)
(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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[Medieval monks reading and writing; advertisement in WIllim of Ockham DIALOGUS, 1494?] comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Medieval monks reading and writing; advertisement in WIllim of Ockham DIALOGUS, 1494?]
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Monks at their desks, one reading and another writing, appear in this 1965 reproduction of an engraving that originally served as an advertisement in an edition of William of Ockham's *Dialogus*, a work by the fourteenth-century Franciscan philosopher. The record gives the advertisement's date as 1494 with a question mark, so the original may come from the early years of printing, when presses were spreading across Europe and displacing hand-copied manuscripts. The choice of a scriptorium scene to promote printed books is worth noticing, since it shows the older craft of copying set against the new trade. Graham Pollard's 1965 study of how books were distributed by catalog reproduces the image.
| Created / published | 1965 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : repr. of engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Graham Pollard, The distribution of books by catalogue ..., 1965, p. 30, fig. 13. Ref. copy in SSF(Gr) - BOOKS. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Religion--Mon.; Books and reading; Writing. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,017 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156853 |
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