Sentence examples for manuscript book from inspiring English sources

They are mostly of an oblong as opposed to codex (i.e., manuscript book) format.

Codex, manuscript book, especially of Scripture, early literature, or ancient mythological or historical annals.

During the 15th century the manuscript book came to resemble its successor, the printed book, in scope.

I had composed ever since my mother gave me a little blue manuscript book, and showed me how to mark the staves.

My spiral-bound manuscript book includes an ambitious program of future compositions: thirty piano sonatas, twelve violin sonatas, various symphonies, concertos, fantasias, and funeral marches, most of them in the key of D minor.

In another one of those suspiciously clear and definite memories I see myself there that Monday morning, in those medieval surroundings, at that scarred old olive-wood table, opening a blank, black-jacketed manuscript book and writing on the first page the title Christine Falls, while within me my heart quailed before the task I had set myself.

During the Middle Ages, manuscript books preserved and propagated sacred writings.

After this, printed books began to replace costly handmade manuscript books.

Before the invention of printing, the number of manuscript books in Europe could be counted in thousands.

These stylized illustrations continued the traditions of ancient Persian manuscript books, but within the context of a contemporary design idiom.

This is not quite true: for example, most of the surviving books of hours (lavish private devotional manuscript books) date from the period after the introduction of printing.