Excerpt from History of Ancient Manuscripts: A Lecture Delivered in the Hall of the Inner Temple
We see on our shelves, in handsome Volumes, the Works of old Authors who lived and wrote before the invention of printing; but how few of us ask ourselves the questions, Where are the originals of which these books are the copies? And what authority have we for the genuineness of the text? Take, for instance, the Classic Authors of Greece and Rome. As might be expected, from the perishable nature of such materials as parchment and paper, not more than a few fragments of manuscripts which are older than the Christian era now survive.
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