Pecia - Encyclopedia. com PECIA A "piece" or section of a manuscript used in university bookstores of the 13th and 14th centuries The newly established universities created a great demand for books
Manuscript culture - Wikipedia The pecia system was developed in Italian university cities by the beginning of the 13th century and became a regulated procedure at the University of Paris in the second half of the century [15]
What Was the Pecia System of Book Production? - Biology Insights The pecia system was a unique approach to book production that emerged in medieval Europe It facilitated the copying of texts within the burgeoning university environment, systematically reproducing scholarly works to meet a growing demand for educational materials
Lexicon - Pecia system A system used from the thirteenth century on, in which university-approved exemplars of texts were divided into sections and were hired out by stationers to scribes for copying (pecia means 'piece' in Latin) Not all books, even those for school use, were subject to the pecia system
Graham Pollard and ‘Oxford Peciae’: False Starts and Discoveries Pecia, however, deserves a little more attention Rather than a professional title, it is a common noun—and the origin of a very common English word, ‘piece’ It thus can stand, as the Dictionary ’s entry would indicate, for any constituent part of anything, including a manuscript
Epic in Late-Medieval Schoolbooks – Virginia Fox Stern Center Some Italian, German, and French universities maintained a direct, proprietary role in the commercial production of textbooks according to a pecia system that endured from the thirteenth century into the era of print
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