• Almanach de Gotha

    almanac that served as a directory for the classification and genealogy of European nobility
  • alphabet

    character set of an alphabetical writing system in a classified order
  • alphabetisation

    children’s, young people’s or adults’ learning of the techniques of reading and writing
  • ambo

    platform built out of stone in medieval churches, predecessor of the pulpit
  • Ambrosiana (Biblioteca Ambrosiana)

    library founded in Milan in 1602
  • anachronism

    false temporal classification of persons or events
  • anagram

    forming a word by rearranging the letters of another word
  • analects

    the fruits of reading: a collection of quotes and passages
  • analogue

    in IT, a continuous, constant and infinitely variable process, also serves as a term for pre-digital media
  • ancillary rights

    legal rights of use arising from a primary right that a publisher passes onto to a third party for the purposes of creating paperback editions, film versions or altered forms of a work