Interesting post!
In the Burgerbibliothek in Bern,
in the Vatican and in the Bibliotheque
Nationale (Paris, now called Bibli de
France)--I have seen Virgil codices
bearing musical notation, suggesting
the text was sung at one point. --??
The transition from scroll to
codex makes me
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:54:16 +0100 (BST)
From: Don Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Robert Dyer wrote (inter much very interesting alia):
I suspect that
the Roman nobility seldom read texts for themselves, but listened to
their slaves.
There is massive evidence from all
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:18:46 +0100 (BST)
From: Don Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Philip Thibodeau wrote:
Also, it seems that the ancients did not use tables to write on, or to
support their papyri when they read. If you were writing (and weren't
using wax tablets), you
To follow up on Don Fowler's recent learned posts on books and readers: if
you follow the link in Don's sig file to his home page at
http://jesus.ox.ac.uk/~dpf/ you will see that he is finishing a book
provisionally titled 'Unrolling the Text: Books and Readers in Latin
Poetry' and that he has a
