Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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Page 24
... beginning of the 4th century ; and the last leaf of a document found at Verespatak , where so many Latin tablets have been discovered , is preserved at Karls- burg . Latin Waxen Tablets . Extant Latin tablets are more numerous , but ...
... beginning of the 4th century ; and the last leaf of a document found at Verespatak , where so many Latin tablets have been discovered , is preserved at Karls- burg . Latin Waxen Tablets . Extant Latin tablets are more numerous , but ...
Page 31
... beginning or end of a roll , in order to give additional strength to the material and prevent it tearing . The first sheet of a papyrus roll was called the πрwтóкоλλоv , a term which still survives in diplomacy ; the last sheet was ...
... beginning or end of a roll , in order to give additional strength to the material and prevent it tearing . The first sheet of a papyrus roll was called the πрwтóкоλλоv , a term which still survives in diplomacy ; the last sheet was ...
Page 47
... beginning of the fourteenth century ; but this practice was very soon abandoned , and was not revived until after the middle of the sixteenth century . The insertion of the name of place of manufacture and of the date of manufacture is ...
... beginning of the fourteenth century ; but this practice was very soon abandoned , and was not revived until after the middle of the sixteenth century . The insertion of the name of place of manufacture and of the date of manufacture is ...
Page 59
... beginning of the roll was held under the chin while the hands were employed in turning the umbilici . Hence Martial , i . 66 , refers to " virginis . . . . chartæ , quæ trita duro non inhorruit mento ; and again , x . 93 , he has ...
... beginning of the roll was held under the chin while the hands were employed in turning the umbilici . Hence Martial , i . 66 , refers to " virginis . . . . chartæ , quæ trita duro non inhorruit mento ; and again , x . 93 , he has ...
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... beginning , in the upper margin , or , more generally at the end , in the lower inner corner . In the Codex Alexandrinus the signatures are at the beginnings of the quires , in the centre of the upper margin . The numbers were ...
... beginning , in the upper margin , or , more generally at the end , in the lower inner corner . In the Codex Alexandrinus the signatures are at the beginnings of the quires , in the centre of the upper margin . The numbers were ...
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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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