"Short Reading"

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Chapter 3 is an interesting chapter that talks about the Asian influence on writing. The chapter discussed such things as Asian printing styles, Asian writing styles and of course, the Asian language, and alphabet. The Asian language is different because they basically have two languages, a spoken language and a written language. Their language developed around the use of symbols. The Asian Calligraphy developed in three phases which the book discussed. The three stages were Chiaku-Wen 1800-1200 BC, then Chin-Wen and then the third phase Hsiaochuan and then the modern phase Chen-Shu. This chapter went into detail about Asian "Printing" the Asians used different forms of printing for example they had relief printing in which they would cut away the space around an image then they would ink the remaining raised surface and rub it to transfer. Chops were also another form of printing along with stone rubbings.

Chapter four was titled “Illuminated Manuscripts.” The chapter was about books that were hand made that were illustrated magnificently. These books usually contained gold leafs and were made by the church. These books contained detail on every page and usually had bold colors that illustrated out a scene. There were many different styles including Caroline, Spanish, Medieval, Islam, Judaic, Gothic, and several more.

The most interesting thing I found in these chapters was the idea of stone printing when they said that one historical work would take up 13 acres of land. I found that to be quite interesting. My question ties in with this idea.. Did they use 13 acres of land to store these books for copying at one time or was that a number made to show the grand size of what could have been.?

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Chapter 3 is an interesting chapter that talks about asian influence on writing. The chapter discussed such things as Asian printing styles asian writing styles and of course the asian language and alphabet. The Asian language is different because they have basically two languages a spoken language and a written language. Their language developed around the use of symbols. The asian Calligraphy developed in three phases which the book discussed those three stages were Chiaku-Wen 1800-1200 BC, then Chin-Wen. And then the third phase hsiaochuan. And then the modern for used today chen-shu. This chapter went into a lot of detail about asain "Priniting" the asian used different forms of printing for example they had something called relief printing in which they would cut away the space around an image then they would ink the remaining raised surface and run it to transfer. Chops were also another form of printing along with stone rubbings.

Chapter four was titled illuminated manuscripts. The chapter was mostly about books that were hand made that were illustrated magnificently. These books usually contained gold leafs and were usually made by the church. These books contained a lot of detail to every page and usually had bold colors that illustrated out a scene. There were many different styles including Carolinen, Spanish, Medieval, islam, Judaic, Gothic, and several more.

The most interesting thing i found in these chapters was the idea of stone printing when they said that one historical work would take up 13 acres of land. I found that to be quite interesting. And my question ties in with this idea.. Did they actually use 13 acres of land to store these books for copying at one time or was that a number made to show the grand size of what could have been.?