Welcome to the digital home for the mini-exhibit The Written Word in the Medieval World, a collaboration between the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
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The Written Word in the Medieval World
The word manuscript derives from the Latin expression manu scripti, meaning “written by hand.” In our own age of e-books...
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From Cicero's De Oratore
Vellum leaf (likely Italian) containing part of Book I of Cicero's De Oratore, with marginal doodling.