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The word exchange : a novel / by Graedon, Alena.(CARDINAL)405427;
In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted "death of print" has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are things of the past, and we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication but also have become so intuitive that they hail us cabs before we leave our offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange. Anana Johnson works with her father, Doug, at the North American Dictionary of the English Language (NADEL), where Doug is hard at work on the last edition that will ever be printed. Doug is a stauchly anti-Meme, anti-tech intellectual who fondly remembers the days when people used email (everything now is text or videoconference) to communicate - or even actually spoke to one another, for that matter. One evening, Doug disappears from the NADEL offices, leaving a single written clue: ALICE. It's a code word he devised to signal if he ever fell into harm's way. And thus begins Anana's journey down the proverbial rabbit hole... -- Jacket flap.
Subjects: Dystopias.; Fiction.; Missing persons; Technology; Transmission of texts; Young women;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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On parchment inheritance : animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age / by Holsinger, Bruce W.,author.(CARDINAL)705489;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of "uterine vellum," and the imaginative role of parchment in the works of St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, and a range of Jewish rabbinic writers of the medieval era. Closely informed by the handicraft of contemporary makers, painters, and sculptors, the book draws on a vast array of sources—codices and scrolls, documents and ephemera, works of craft and art—that speak to the vitality of parchment across epochs and continents. At the center of On Parchment is the vexed relationship of human beings to the myriad slaughtered beasts whose remains make up this vast record: a relationship of dominion and compassion, of brutality and empathy.
Subjects: Paper work.; Parchment.; Transmission of texts.; Visual communication.; Writing; Written communication;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The text of the New Testament : its transmission, corruption, and restoration / by Metzger, Bruce M.(Bruce Manning),1914-2007.(CARDINAL)128222;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-301) and indexes.1600L
Subjects: Bible.; Bible.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lost world of scripture : ancient literary culture and biblical authority / by Walton, John H.,1952-(CARDINAL)716902;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes."From Dr. John H. Walton, author of the bestselling The Lost World of Genesis One, and Dr. D. Brent Sandy, author of Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, comes a detailed look at the origins of Scriptural authority in ancient oral cultures and how it informs our understanding of the Old and New Testaments today. Stemming from questions about Scriptural inerrancy, inspiration and oral transmission of ideas, The Lost World of Scripture examines the process by which the Bible has come to be what it is today. From the reasons why specific words were used to convey certain ideas to how oral tradition impacted the transmission of Biblical texts, the authors seek to uncover how these issues might affect our current doctrine on the authority of Scripture.'In this book we are exploring ways God chose to reveal his word in light of discoveries about ancient literary culture,' write Walton and Sandy. 'Our specific objective is to understand better how both the Old and New Testaments were spoken, written and passed on, especially with an eye to possible implications for the Bible's inspiration and authority'" -- Publisher description.
Subjects: Bible; Bible and tradition.; Oral communication.; Oral tradition.; Transmission of texts.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The history of books : a guide to selected resources in the Library of Congress / by Schreyer, Alice D.(CARDINAL)177359; Library of Congress.Center for the Book(CARDINAL)135155;
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subjects: Bibliography; Books and reading; Printing; Learning and scholarship; Transmission of texts; Library of Congress.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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How the Irish saved civilization : the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe / by Cahill, Thomas.(CARDINAL)781767;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Includes index.
Subjects: Books; Civilization, Classical; Learning and scholarship; Manuscripts; Monastic libraries; Scriptoria; Transmission of texts.; Transmission of texts;
Available copies: 34 / Total copies: 40
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Feasibility study for transmission of a live
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The gilded page : the secret lives of medieval manuscripts / by Wellesley, Mary,1986-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Prologue: The Alchemy of Parchment -- Discoveries -- Near Disasters -- Patrons -- Artists -- Scribes -- Authors & Scribes -- Authors Hidden -- Epilogue: The Death of the Manuscript -- Afterword: Uses & Abuses of the Past."The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the pre-Gutenberg age. Ranging from the earliest intact book in Europe, to the only known literary manuscript to be written in Shakespeare's hand, scholar Mary Wellesley reveals the secret lives of these literary and artistic treasures. Traipsing through the remarkable history, she recounts fires (the only surviving Beowulf manuscript is singed at its edges, losing a bit of its matter every decade) and threats ("this is Elisabeth Danes's book / he thatsteals it shall be hanged by the neck," reads the marginalia in one treasured text). Some manuscripts were designed to reinforce power-like the psalter commissioned by Henry VIII, with a bold illustration of David fighting Goliath, the king's likeness asDavid's and his archnemesis Pope Paul III's face drawn on Goliath. Some survive and remain celebrated because of an author's political connections-we have so much of Chaucer's writings, and thus study and revere them, because he was a government officialfirst, a poet second. And although work identified with men was more likely to survive through time, some of the most beguiling and beautiful texts were created by women. Many have been lost, like Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. Yet othersare relatively recent discoveries, like the manuscript of illiterate Margery Kempe, found in a country house closet by a family searching for ping pong balls, the book's cover nibbled on by mice. But all these objects have their secrets, and their creation and survival tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Today we associate illuminated manuscripts with wealthy elites, but they were made by ordinary people: the grinders and binders, the scribes and rubricators. We remember the patrons and the authors, but these objects have been much altered-text embroidered by upstart scribes, mistakes made in copying poems, whole chapters lost to time-and our literary inheritance is one of collective authorship. Rich, dazzling, and passionately told,Untitled is a tribute to some of the most exquisite objects ever made by human hands"--
Subjects: English literature; English literature; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Medieval; Marginalia; Transmission of texts;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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How the Irish saved civilization : the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe / by Cahill, Thomas.(CARDINAL)781767;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; Civilization, Classical; Books; Manuscripts; Monastic libraries; Transmission of texts.; Scriptoria;
Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 25
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How the Irish saved civilization [sound recording] / by Cahill, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)781767; Donnelly, Donal,narrator.(CARDINAL)830237;
Read by Donal Donnelly.Reveals the pivotal role played by the monks and scribes of Ireland in the development of Western culture and history.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Books; Civilization, Classical; Learning and scholarship; Manuscripts; Monastic libraries; Scriptoria; Transmission of texts.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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