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The Metamorfoze Preservation Programme

  • Andrea Langendoen
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 7. Dezember 2007
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Sometime in the 1490s, a Benedictine monk by the name of Johannes Trithemius was deeply concerned about how long the newfangled invention of printing, on paper, would endure:

For handwriting placed on parchment will be able to endure a thousand years. But how long, forsooth, will printing last, which is dependent on paper? For if a paper volume lasts for two hundred years that is a long time.



Published Online: 2007-12-07
Published in Print: 2004-September

© 2004 by K. G. Saur

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