• Church Fathers

    authors of the 8th century who made a considerable contribution to the teachings and identity of Christianity
  • Cicero

    in typographic measuring systems, the scale for a type size of 12 points
  • cimelia

    rare and valuable ancient manuscripts and prints that are very important in the collection or library
  • cipher

    encoded characters in a secret text
  • civilian

    a person belonging to a society who is not a member of its military
  • civilisation

    a way of life developed and ordered according to bourgeois perceptions
  • class

    a legally, socially and largely culturally enclosed group linked through commonalities relating to ancestry, profession, property or education
  • Classicism

    an era of art history lasting from approximately 1770 to 1840
  • classified catalogue

    a library subject catalogue with documents systematically grouped together according to their subject relevance
  • clay tablet

    clay writing slab primarily used to display cuneiform script that was stamped into the surface