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Excerpt from Lex Salica: The Ten Texts With the Glosses, and the Lex EmendataThe codices of the Lex Salica, which have been preserved to us, may be divided into five classes or families.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstru...

Excerpt from Lex Salica: The Ten Texts With the Glosses, and the Lex EmendataThe codices of the Lex Salica, which have been preserved to us, may be divided into five classes or families.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstru...

Excerpt from Haarlem, the Birth-Place of Printing: Not MentzBefore I could attempt to write anything, some very important points required to be cleared up. For instance I was not prepared to state whom I regarded as the inventor of printing, or where the invention had been made. I certainly did not think that the honour of the invention could be ascribed to Gutenberg, or to Monte. But the Haarlem tradition had been so ridiculed, and its advoca...

About the Book A Dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, generally displayed alphabetically, which often incorporate definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc, and may be for specialized fields. Titles include: A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe, Parts I-IV, A Dictionary of English Rhymes, A dictionary of the Kentish dialect, A Dictionary of th...

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Excerpt from Haarlem, the Birth-Place of Printing: Not Mentz It is an unfortunate feature in Dr. Van der Linde's works on the invention of printing that what should form their most essential part namely, a bibliographical treatment of the subject - is singularly unreliable, or altogether wanting. This feature is even more marked in the present than in any of his previous publications. The remainder of the book, that is to say, its polemical p...