Broadening of subjects and audience. XVIIth century production in the Netherlands and France. XVIIIth century production in England and Italy. Diversification of the material printed in the XIXth century. Typography mechanization: pantograph, linotype and monotype. Lithography. Private printing presses.
Printing press, movable types, ink and paper in the emergence of press. Paper, printing and movable types manufacturing process. Gutenberg’s printing press. Incunabula: characteristics. The spreading of the printing press and great printers of the XVth and XVIth centuries.
First public records: dolmens, menhirs, rock paintings. Quipu, Wampun and winter counts: mnemonics. Types of substrates: archaeological and paleographic. Clay, wood, papyrus and parchment: formats, writing techniques and tools. Scroll and codex: characteristics and parts. Codex production. Types of codex binding. Renaissance manuscripts. Paper: xylographic and typographic printings. Typographic and incunabula books: characteristics, print run, subject matters. Incunabula typefaces: Gothic and Romans. Italics and small format editions.
First public records: dolmens, menhirs, rock paintings. Quipu, Wampun and winter counts: mnemonics. Types of substrates: archaeological and paleographic. Clay, wood, papyrus and parchment: formats, writing techniques and tools. Scroll and codex: characteristics and parts. Codex production. Types of codex binding. Renaissance manuscripts. Paper: xylographic and typographic printings. Typographic and incunabula books: characteristics, print run, subject matters. Incunabula typefaces: Gothic and Romans. Italics and small format editions.
Religious and secular books. Illuminated manuscripts. Going from the scroll to the codex. Book process: substrate and page preparation, writing of the manuscript, decoration (miniatures, initials, illustrations, borders and footnotes, illumination), bookbinding. Scribes and artists, religious and laymen. Celtic books and others.
Relationship with the Greek alphabet: similarities and differences. Types of writing: tombstone and calligraphic. Styles: characteristics and uses. Handwriting.
The process of acrophony in the Phoenician alphabet: Writing of consonants The Greek alphabet: writing of consonant and vowels. Relationship with sound. Letter repertoire. Letter form. Writing direction.
From Canaanite to ancient Phoenician, from Phoenician to Greek, from Greek to Etruscan, from Etruscan to Roman. Essential characteristics. Who writes and how they learn to do so.
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