Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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Page vii
... course of development of the handwritings of former ages are based on our know- ledge and experience of the development of modern forms of writing . Children at school learn to write by copying formal text - hands in their copy - books ...
... course of development of the handwritings of former ages are based on our know- ledge and experience of the development of modern forms of writing . Children at school learn to write by copying formal text - hands in their copy - books ...
Page 1
... course through which other primitive forms of writing have passed , we must allow a considerable period of time to have elapsed before the hieroglyphs had assumed the phonetic values which they already possess in the earliest existing ...
... course through which other primitive forms of writing have passed , we must allow a considerable period of time to have elapsed before the hieroglyphs had assumed the phonetic values which they already possess in the earliest existing ...
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Sir Edward Maunde Thompson. ideas which they expressed . From the ideograms in course of time developed the phonograms , or written symbols of sounds , first as verbal signs representing entire words , then as syllabic signs of the ...
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson. ideas which they expressed . From the ideograms in course of time developed the phonograms , or written symbols of sounds , first as verbal signs representing entire words , then as syllabic signs of the ...
Page 6
... course of transmission to the Greeks and to have been applied by them to the wrong signs . The name zeta appears to corre- spond to the name tsade , but the letter appears to be taken from the letter zayn . Xi , which seems 6 Palæography .
... course of transmission to the Greeks and to have been applied by them to the wrong signs . The name zeta appears to corre- spond to the name tsade , but the letter appears to be taken from the letter zayn . Xi , which seems 6 Palæography .
Page 46
... course of the fifteenth century it gradually superseded it . MSS . of this later period are sometimes composed of both vellum and paper , a sheet of vellum forming the outer leaves of a quire , the rest being of paper : a revival of the ...
... course of the fifteenth century it gradually superseded it . MSS . of this later period are sometimes composed of both vellum and paper , a sheet of vellum forming the outer leaves of a quire , the rest being of paper : a revival of 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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