Ann Blair and Meredith Quinn Fall 2013 History 1318 Midterm preparation The midterm (Wed 9/25 in Sever 203) will consist of: 1. short IDs from among key terms found in readings and lectures (list below for reference): choice of 2 out of 3 [5 minutes] 2. a timeline exercise that requires you to place important developments in the century they occurred and identify what makes them important [15 minutes] 3. a synthetic essay question (i.e., think comparatively across the different weeks and think about gathering arguments for and against various larger claims about the material) [30 minutes] Terms for identification: clay tablet; cuneiform; wax tablets; papyrus roll; volumen; palimpsest codex; parchment; vellum; pricking, ruling; paper Library of Alexandria scriptio continua; Saenger's "space between words"; Pope Gregory the Great; stemma glosses; scriptoria; punctuation; scholastic reading; autograph xylography vs moveable type; center strip changing uses of print: Buddhist prayers, exam preparation Basmallah; overlining; al-Nadim; collation; ijaza punch, matrix, sort; compositor, casting off; corrector, pressmen imposition, inking, distribution, cases: upper case and lower case Gutenberg; indulgence; Gutenberg Bible; publisher vs. printer; job printing humanism; Aldus Manutius; aldine editions; editio princeps Roman, Gothic, Italic scripts; vernacular rubrication; illumination; woodblock illustration Folio, quarto, octavo etc. signatures, foliation, pagination, quire or gathering; catchword incunabulum, incipit, colophon; title page; errata list; alphabetical index ex-libris, marginalia, interleaved pages; sammelband; volvelle Eisenstein thesis; objections by Grafton; Johns thesis .