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History of Text Technologies

A guide for learning about the history of different types of text technologies and to aid in locating primary source examples within the FSU Libraries collections.

History of Early Printing Presses

Glossary of Terms

Broadside/Broadsheet: A sheet that has been printed as a single leaf, rather than folded into smaller leaves. The term is often used to describe any sheet that has been printed on a single side, regardless of format; it has also come to be used as a genre term for proclamations and ballads and other works that were printed in this format. 

Incunable: From the Latin in cunabula ('in the cradle' or 'origins'), an incunable is a printed book produced before 1501, that is, when the process of printing from movable type was in its infancy.

External Sources for Printing

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