Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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... England the custom of using wooden tallies , inscribed as well as notched , in the public accounts lasted down to the present century . " " 2 Waxen and other Tablets . But we may assume that as a general rule tablets were coated with ...
... England the custom of using wooden tallies , inscribed as well as notched , in the public accounts lasted down to the present century . " " 2 Waxen and other Tablets . But we may assume that as a general rule tablets were coated with ...
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... England ; and specimens are reported to have been found in Ireland . It is said that quite recently sales in the fish - market of Rouen were noted on waxen tablets.2 Greek Waxen Tablets . Ancient Greek waxen tablets have survived in not ...
... England ; and specimens are reported to have been found in Ireland . It is said that quite recently sales in the fish - market of Rouen were noted on waxen tablets.2 Greek Waxen Tablets . Ancient Greek waxen tablets have survived in not ...
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... England the early MSS . are generally on stouter vellum than their contemporaries abroad . In Italy a highly polished surface seems at most periods to have been in favour ; hence in this coun- try and neighbouring districts , as the ...
... England the early MSS . are generally on stouter vellum than their contemporaries abroad . In Italy a highly polished surface seems at most periods to have been in favour ; hence in this coun- try and neighbouring districts , as the ...
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... England , in 1279 and following years , are on the same material ; and a register of the hustings court of Lyme Regis , now in the British Museum , which begins with entries of the year 1309 , is on paper which was pro- bably imported ...
... England , in 1279 and following years , are on the same material ; and a register of the hustings court of Lyme Regis , now in the British Museum , which begins with entries of the year 1309 , is on paper which was pro- bably imported ...
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... England drew her supplies , no doubt , at first from such trading ports as Bordeaux and Genoa ; but even in the fourteenth century it is not improbable that she had a rough home- manufacture of her own , although it is said that the ...
... England drew her supplies , no doubt , at first from such trading ports as Bordeaux and Genoa ; but even in the fourteenth century it is not improbable that she had a rough home- manufacture of her own , although it is said that the ...
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9th century alphabet ancient angular appears book-hand British Museum capital Caroline minuscule Chancery hand character charter-hand charters Codex Codex Alexandrinus copy cursive forms cursive hand cursive writing curve deed Delisle developed documents earlier earliest early eleventh century employed English example Facsim fifteenth century following facsimile form of writing forms of letters fragments Frankish empire Gospels Greek writing half-uncial handwriting horizontal stroke Hyperides Illustrations inscribed inscriptions instances Irish Italy later Latin lines literary hand Lombardic majuscule Manuscrits marked material Merovingian middle ages minuscule hand national hands ninth century noticed Omont ordinary Palæography palimpsest papyrus Paris period practice Psalter quia quod roll Roman cursive rustic capitals scribes seen shapes signs specimen style of writing survived thirteenth century twelfth century uncial uncial writing vellum vellum MSS Visigothic Wattenbach waxen tablets Western Europe words written Z. W. Ex δε ἐν καὶ τοῦ τῶν
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