{"id":1374,"date":"2009-04-12T12:38:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T19:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T03:04:13","slug":"the-shape-of-the-book-from-roll-to-codex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/12\/the-shape-of-the-book-from-roll-to-codex\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-1374\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandragora.it\/english\/Mandragora2.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Franka Arduini (ed.), Guglielmo Cavallo (essay)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Mandragora, 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-88-7461-116-4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I bought this book in the Duomo Museum in Siena.\u00c2\u00a0 As the title indicates, its a book about books, or more accurately a catalog of some of the history of the written word.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is not available from Amazon &#8211; I&#8217;ve added a link to the publisher&#8217;s page.<\/p>\n<p>There is one essay which is quite good but also quite technical &#8211; I had to look up some words that are quite technical and not in common lay use.\u00c2\u00a0 The photos and descriptions in the catalog was quite nice.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve reproduced a couple here so you can see.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t find many books about the history of the written word, so I&#8217;m glad I could add this small volume to my collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"An ostracon from the 2nd century BCE\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ostracon.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1375\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/12\/the-shape-of-the-book-from-roll-to-codex\/ostracon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ostracon.jpg?fit=354%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"354,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ostracon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ostracon.jpg?fit=354%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1375 colorbox-1374\" title=\"ostracon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ostracon-212x300.jpg?resize=212%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ostracon.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ostracon.jpg?resize=106%2C150&amp;ssl=1 106w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ostracon.jpg?w=354&amp;ssl=1 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"A phallus contest from Japan, 19th cen.\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/phalliccontest.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1376\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/12\/the-shape-of-the-book-from-roll-to-codex\/phalliccontest\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/phalliccontest.jpg?fit=500%2C554&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,554\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"phalliccontest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/phalliccontest.jpg?fit=500%2C554&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1376 colorbox-1374\" title=\"phalliccontest\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/phalliccontest-270x300.jpg?resize=270%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/phalliccontest.jpg?resize=270%2C300&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/phalliccontest.jpg?resize=135%2C150&amp;ssl=1 135w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/phalliccontest.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size:8pt;\">On the top, an ostracon from the 2nd century BCE, on the bottom a phallus contest from Japan, 19th cen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-1374\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 1374);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-1374\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-1374\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex Author: Franka Arduini (ed.), Guglielmo Cavallo (essay) Publisher: Mandragora, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-88-7461-116-4 I bought this book in the Duomo Museum in Siena.\u00c2\u00a0 As the title indicates, its a book about books, or more accurately a catalog of some of the history of the written word.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}