“Scribes, Script and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance” by Leila Avrin

"Scribes, Script and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance" by Leila Avrin

"A fascinating work which covers origins of the book, the history of writing, the book in the ancient world, the development of scripts and styles of illumination, paper, and the cultural traditions of Islamic and Hebrew bookmaking."