Chapter 32 Ancient Books and "Inklebra"

Ancient Books and "Inklebra" Recently, a cartoon was published in an American literary magazine: the ancient book department of a bookstore, there is An old gentleman wants to buy "Inklebra", the clerk of the shopkeeper turns around and messes with another clerk Ghost, ask him if there is any "Inklebra" in the store, and if he knows what "Inklebra" is? What is it.From the facial expression of the other clerk, it can be seen that he is also inexplicable, nor Know what "Inklebra" is. When the clerk of a Chinese bookstore does not know the title of the book or the name of the author mentioned by the customer,

Often prevarication with "sold out" or "not yet published", I don't know that comic What kind of words would the two shop assistants use to answer their customers, and if they were unlucky, they would also use such words to prevaricate Plug, then there will be an even bigger joke. Because "Inclebra" is neither the title of the book nor the name of the author, let alone the name of "selling Finished" or "not yet published". The so-called "Incunabula" is the name of a kind of book.the word Originally, it contained the meaning of "cradle" and "birthplace", and later turned into the origin of everything.Europe

Printed books appeared in Europe in the 15th century, so all books published in the 15th century are collectively named It was called "Inklebra", and gradually became a special term in edition studies.antique book store The members don't know what "Inklebra" is, which of course qualifies as comic material. China is the country that invented printing and is the first country in the world to have printed books. The current "Diamond Sutra" was printed in the 868th year of the Western calendar, so China has been around the 8th century. Printed books are popular, but European scholars have always believed that the invention of printing in China is not very important to Europe.

For the reason of direct influence, the fifteenth century is always regarded as the age of printing invention, and the printed Book titled "Inklebra" with German Johann Gutenberg as letterpress The inventor of printing, the "Goldenburg Bible" printed by him is the first printed book in the world. At that time, Germany was the most published books, followed by Italy, and Britain was the most backward. Most of the characters are Latin, Greek and Hebrew, because this is the common language of European countries at that time. Character.Among the fifteenth-century books (the so-called "Inklebra") that have been handed down to this day, it is said that there are three

About 18,000 volumes.These "Inklebras" have become the favorites of libraries and private bibliophiles in various countries. Treasures rarely end up in the ancient book market.A 'Goldenburg Bible' was gifted 10 years ago To the Yale University Library, the gift was bought from the auction market for a huge price of one hundred and six thousand US dollars. to buy. The so-called "500th anniversary of the invention of printing" by Europeans is coming, I think, by others China should have had a systematic exhibition on the invention of printing and the popularity of editions

It will show the Europeans that correcting their narrow prejudices and arbitrariness is better than correcting how we drink tea. It would be better to introduce them to the situation of such a chat.