. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . y have beenproduced somewhat earlier, probably in thelatter part of the fourteenth or early in thefifteenth century. The block-books were printed wholly from carvedblocks of wood. A whole page, sometimes twowhole pages were printed from a single block-books are of two kinds: books of pic-tures without text, but containing words descrip-tive of the picture at the foot of the page, in thecorners, or in scrolls near the figures; and booksof pictures containing explanations of the picturesin a full page of text, usually printed on the p
. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . y have beenproduced somewhat earlier, probably in thelatter part of the fourteenth or early in thefifteenth century. The block-books were printed wholly from carvedblocks of wood. A whole page, sometimes twowhole pages were printed from a single block-books are of two kinds: books of pic-tures without text, but containing words descrip-tive of the picture at the foot of the page, in thecorners, or in scrolls near the figures; and booksof pictures containing explanations of the picturesin a full page of text, usually printed on the pageopposite the picture. Of the first class, pictures without pages oftext, the best known are the Biblia Pauperum(Bible of the Poor), the Apocalypse of St. John,the Canticum Canticorum (The Canticles), andthe Story of the Blessed Virgin. To the secondclass belong Der Endkrist (The Antichrist), theArs Memorandi (How to Remember the Evan- ft iwnhfiT: ipaiJttrct) (^T»i:si6at)rpumg(t)r bat uuipnFiuanmu:,jjtoiJoCAin fmr coipiQihcue iui|){tiyTi5aim t^.
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