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Manuscript in Renaissance Philosophy

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The shift from manuscript to printed book occurred slowly. Renaissance writers preserved a good deal of the format and intellectual habits inherited from the manuscript tradition. A considerable amount of philosophical work of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries exists in manuscripts, which contain significant variants and redactions erased by the homogeneity of printed books. Manuscript study clarifies the wider picture of the tastes, intellectual enthusiasms, institutional needs, and diffusion of ideas in the Renaissance period.

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  1. Winchester College, Winchester, UK

    Malcolm Hebron

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  1. Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Venezia, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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  1. THE WARBURG INSTITUTE, London, UK

    Jill Kraye

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Hebron, M. (2020). Manuscript in Renaissance Philosophy. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_675-1

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