Pre-history of the book
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book culture book history forms of books paleo-books pre-books proto‑books

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Kotuła, S. D. (2018). Pre-history of the book. Biblioteka, (22(31), 9–27. https://doi.org/10.14746/b.2018.22.1

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Abstract

The traditional book appeared in the media landscape in the fifteenth century. Its emergence required considerable evolution and a number of projects. All of these are referred to as proto-books, i.e. prototypes of contemporary books (also calledhi storical forms of books). Proto-books, however, were not created in a vacuum, but were the result of earlier developments, which can be termed either pre-books because they were created in prehistorical times or paleo-books because they were mainly created in the Paleolithic. Finally, the traditional book became the basis for the development of digital forms of books that are referred to as post‑books. The aim of this article is to approximate the earliest stage of book development, i.e. the period from the Paleolithic (mainly Upper). The article presents the main categories of prehistorical forms of books. As a result of the analysis of available scientific publications, the current state of research in the field of prehistoric origins of book is described. The implementation of such a research program allowed the organization of knowledge in the field of book prehistory. As a result, a synthetic approach was created devoted to the presentation of the earliest stages of the development of forms that eventually led to the emergence of the codex printed book in the landscape of mass media.
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