Early modern literature

the systematic collection of a poet's output for academic purposes, as opposed to the self-published mecmuas

thumbnail|Chapbook (c. 1800) of Jack the Giant Killer A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was a popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe. Chapbooks were usually produced cheaply, illustrated with crude woodcuts and printed on a single sheet folded into 8, 12, 16, or 24 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. Printers provided chapbooks on credit to chapmen, who sold them both from door to door and at markets and fairs, then paying for the stock they sold. The tradition of chapbooks emerged during the 16th century as printed books were becoming aff

thumb|right|upright|Adam and Eve being cast out from the Garden of Eden in the Dispersed Falnama thumb|right|upright|Coffin of Ali|Imam 'Ali from the Dispersed Falnama|alt=Refer to caption The Persian word Falnama () covers two forms of bibliomancy (fortune-telling using a book) used historically in Iran, Turkey, and India. Quranic Falnamas were sections at the end of Quran manuscripts used for fortune-telling based on a grid. In the 16th century, Falnama manuscripts were introduced that used a different system; individuals performed purification rituals, opened a random page in the book and i

overview of literature-related events during the 17th century

1545–49 listing of all the books printed in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew then known