Plates
Figures
Maps
Tables
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Writing
Embryo Writing
Systems and Stages
The Ancestors of Western Script
Chapter 2 - The Alphabet
Principle and System
Diffusion of the Alphabet
Chapter 3 - The Book in the Ancient World: Mesopotamia
History of Mesopotamia: Summer, Assyria, Babylonia
Books: Materials and Techniques
Literature
Scribes
Colophons
Chapter 4 - The Egyptian Book
History and Evidence
Materials
Scrolls
Titles and Colophons
Literature
Illustrations
Scribes
Chapter 5 - The Hebrew Book
History
Materials
The Making of a Torah Scroll
Scribes
Books Other than the Torah
Development of the Hebrew Codex: The Middle Ages
Adornment and Illumination of Hebrew Manuscripts
Chapter 6 - The Greek and Hellenistic Book
History and Evidence for the Book
Materials
The Writing of a Scroll
Readers and Scribes
Colophons
Literature
Hellenism and the Book
Parchment
Chapter 7 - The Roman Book
History and Literature
Materials
Publishers, Scribes, and Readers
Education
From Scroll to Codex
Chapter 8 - Latin Script
Capitals
Cursive Scripts
Uncials
Minuscules
Gothic Script
Humanistic Script
Calligraphy after the Invention of Printing
Chapter 9 - Codices Manu Scripti: Books Written by Hand
The Monastery and the Literary Tradition
Materials
Design and Preparation of the Codex
The Scribe
Colophons
The Artist
Women and Books
The Late Middle Ages
Scources of Manuscripts
Chapter 10 - Manuscript Illumination
Methodology
Early Christian and Byzantine Manuscripts
Hiberno-Saxon
Carolingian Renaissance
Ottonian
Romanesque
Gothic
Chapter 11 - The Islamic Book
Materials: Papyrus, Parchment, and Paper
Tools, Ink, and Paint
Format
Literature
Script and Scribes
Illustrations
Chapter 12 - Papermaking
From the Far East to the Near East
Spain
Italy
European Methods
New Raw Materials
Innovations
Chapter 13 - Bookbinding
Technique: Forwarding
Finishing
History
Chapter 14 - On the Eve of Printing
Block Printing in the Far East and Near East
Block Printing in Europe
Block Books
Bibliography
Index