When the printing press was invented nearly 600 years ago, it put an end to centuries of hand-written manuscripts in which scribes, mostly in monasteries, tediously wrote and illustrated sacred texts, ...
On Monday, the feast day of Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth Schrader planned to hike up a mountain in the south of France to the cave where, legend has it, the saint lived out her remaining days after the ...
Long before books could be printed on a mechanical press or a digital printer and delivered to your door at the click of a button, they were written and copied by hand, word by word, with hand-cut ...
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