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Figure 3

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Illustrated Books of Hours were turned out in huge numbers for
the use of pious lay people in the age before print. the main
centres of production in Paris and the Low Countries also supplied
a healthy export market.

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. . . . Fifty years previously, (around 1440 A.D) a cranky German businessman had concluded his experiment with tenchiques of making “mechanical books”, it would have taken a life time to assemble the collection that Juliarius could purchase in one good mornings hunting on the Merceria of Venice. Printing did not invent the books: medieval Europe was full of books. But before the fifteenth century all books had to be meticulously hand-copied, with quill and ink, from other precious texts. Now, suddenly in the second half of the fifteenth century, books were available in wild profusion. It was no wonder that men like Marcantinio Sabellico believed that the world of knowledge -- their world -- was transformed for ever. ~ xii Prelude

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