Sentence examples for handwritten book from inspiring English sources

Illuminated manuscript, handwritten book that has been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colours, or elaborate designs or miniature pictures.

Hilary Spurling edited this collection from a handwritten book passed down in her family dating from 1604.

3. The third example of a printer's mark in a handwritten book comes is found in a book of proverbs.

Clifford Wulfman and Erika Eggleston scan a handwritten book of poems by Russian writer Osip Mandelstam so that it can be viewed online; they use a special cradle that ensures the process will not damage the book's spine.

The book made possible a revolution in thought and scholarship that became evident by the 16th century: the sources lay in the capacity of the press to multiply copies, to complete editions, and to reproduce a uniform graphic design along new conventional patterns that made the printed volume differ in appearance from the handwritten book.

During the last part of the school's activity, Simon Bening was its major master, but by his death in 1561, manuscript illumination, like the handwritten book itself, had long been superseded by the invention of printing with movable type and mass-reproduction techniques.

Many handwritten books imported from Barbary are also sold.

Pupils would not normally possess copies of these textbooks, since handwritten books were very expensive, but would learn the rules by rote from their teacher's dictation.

In between, there are handwritten books: a mathematical treatise in Latin, an illuminated Koran, a Hebrew Bible with interlaced designs picked out in micrographic script.

When you're balancing a critical account at five in the morning, for example, handwritten books never flash messages like "Reading Error Tape Drive E" and then shut off all further communication.

Marie-Madeline's books were printed in Fraktur, an older form of German, but she wrote her works in even older handwritten script known as Sutterlin-Schrift.