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Bibliophile. Rare book collector. The history of writing, and of the book, from cave painting to cuneiform tablet to papyrus scroll to medieval codex to Kindle.

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    Incunabula‏ @incunabula 24h24 hours ago

    Printed in Korea in 1377, 78 years before Gutenberg, this is the world's oldest extant book printed with movable metal type. Known by its abbreviated name of "Jikji", only a single copy of one volume of the original 2 volume edition survives, and is held today by @laBnF in Paris.pic.twitter.com/8HWagQnQcY

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      2. Incunabula‏ @incunabula 24h24 hours ago

        In a colophon the last page of Jikji is recorded details of its publication, indicating that it was published in the 3rd Year of King U (July 1377) by metal type at Heungdeok temple in Cheongju.pic.twitter.com/n90XLm1RZP

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      3. Incunabula‏ @incunabula 24h24 hours ago

        The cover on the surviving volume of this edition is a replacement of the original, and records in French "The oldest known Korean book printed with molded type, with 1377 as date". Jikji was donated to @laBnF by the heirs of the collector Henri Véver, when he died in 1950.pic.twitter.com/xJJGPRm8cV

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      4. Incunabula‏ @incunabula 24h24 hours ago

        UNESCO confirmed Jikji as the world's oldest book printed with metal type in September 2001, and includes it in the Memory of the World Programme.pic.twitter.com/V8LGNBYfdS

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      5. Incunabula‏ @incunabula 23h23 hours ago

        Jikji was purchased in Korea in the early 1900s by the French consul at the time, Victor Collin de Plancy. Most of the books Plancy collected in Korea were sold at auction in 1911, where Jikji was purchased for 180 fr. by Henri Véver. Vever later gave it to the BNF in his will.pic.twitter.com/5S9IbmDnG2

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      6. Incunabula‏ @incunabula 22h22 hours ago

        Source http://gallica.bnf.fr  / Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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      2. Cire‏ @tragure 21h21 hours ago
        Replying to @incunabula @laBnF

        So why no Mazarin Bible deluge of books?

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      3. Incunabula‏ @incunabula 20h20 hours ago
        Replying to @tragure @laBnF

        What do you mean? In the pre-1500 period there was vastly more printing in Asia than in the West.

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      2. R Steven Gumbay‏ @RStevenG 22h22 hours ago
        Replying to @incunabula @DrLindseyFitz @laBnF

        Is there any illustration or figure showing the machine or how it was done?

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      3. 녹차녀 [green tea girl]  🍵 🦊‏ @shrcksu 19h19 hours ago
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        There is a museum for this in Cheongju! It's about 30-40m SE by high-speed rail from Seoul and the museum would be about 30m from the Osong stop. http://jikjiworld.cheongju.go.kr/app3/jikjiworld/content/eng_main/index.html …

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      2. T'nt'cleSpaceHorror‏ @AshokaTheBear 17h17 hours ago
        Replying to @incunabula @trashywaifu @laBnF

        Did they use chinese characters at the time?

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      3. T H E E N D O F C A K E‏ @trashywaifu 17h17 hours ago
        Replying to @AshokaTheBear @incunabula @laBnF

        Yeah before they used hangul Korea used the chinese alphabet and iirc they called it hanja

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      4. Carl Zha‏ @CarlZha 17h17 hours ago
        Replying to @trashywaifu @AshokaTheBear and

        At the time, Japan, Korea, Vietnam all used Chinese characters and Classical Chinese in official documents

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      1.  📈 Monting‏ @monting 14h14 hours ago
        Replying to @incunabula @laBnF

        This is Zen Buddhist text in Chinese, readable by modern Chinese readers. “Jikji” means “direct pointing”.

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      2. Brown‏ @Brownstonedd 11h11 hours ago
        Replying to @incunabula @laBnF

        Maybe give it back to Korea?

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      1. Dreamspace President‏ @D_P_com 18h18 hours ago
        Replying to @incunabula @laBnF

        The first book ever printed ... was not the Bible. YMMD

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      2. Renay Singh‏ @renaysingh 4h4 hours ago
        Replying to @incunabula @laBnF

        Return it to the Koreans.

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      2. Jēkabs Янисович‏ @Jeshk0 9h9 hours ago
        Replying to @incunabula @laBnF

        This is super interesting! But what about the printing method? Did Korea and surrounding areas start printing more books after discovering (or inventing?) movable type?

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      3. Alex Cheung‏ @greatsave7 2h2 hours ago
        Replying to @Jeshk0 @incunabula @laBnF

        Movable type was invented in China during the Song dynasty, mid-11thC. They began as porcelain type. By the Yuan dynasty they were using limited metal movable type for printing paper money. Goryeo (Korea) became a vassal of the Yuan dynasty, so the tech spread there then.

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