Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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... derived from the Roman alphabet ; the Roman , from a local form of the Greek ; the Greek , from the Phoenician ; the Phoenician , from the Egyptian hieratic . The hieroglyphic records of Egypt extend through a period of from four to ...
... derived from the Roman alphabet ; the Roman , from a local form of the Greek ; the Greek , from the Phoenician ; the Phoenician , from the Egyptian hieratic . The hieroglyphic records of Egypt extend through a period of from four to ...
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... derived from local influences or from linguistic or other causes . We cannot , then , accept the idea of a Cadmean alphabet , in the sense of an alphabet of one uniform pattern for all Greece . Among the two - and - twenty signs adopted ...
... derived from local influences or from linguistic or other causes . We cannot , then , accept the idea of a Cadmean alphabet , in the sense of an alphabet of one uniform pattern for all Greece . Among the two - and - twenty signs adopted ...
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... derived from zayn , represents tsade . Sigma , which may be identified with samekh , represents shin . But all these sibilants were not used simultane- ously for any one dialect or locality . In the well - known passage of Herodotus ( i ...
... derived from zayn , represents tsade . Sigma , which may be identified with samekh , represents shin . But all these sibilants were not used simultane- ously for any one dialect or locality . In the well - known passage of Herodotus ( i ...
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... derived from one of its ancient Egyptian names , P - apa . Herodotus , our most ancient authority for any details of the purposes for which the plant was employed , always calls it Búßλos , a word no doubt also taken from an Egyptian ...
... derived from one of its ancient Egyptian names , P - apa . Herodotus , our most ancient authority for any details of the purposes for which the plant was employed , always calls it Búßλos , a word no doubt also taken from an Egyptian ...
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... derived from the material , the Búßìos or papyrus , of which books were made . The corresponding word liber of the Latin people , in like manner , was adopted as a term for a book , primitively made of the bark or inner rind of the lime ...
... derived from the material , the Búßìos or papyrus , of which books were made . The corresponding word liber of the Latin people , in like manner , was adopted as a term for a book , primitively made of the bark or inner rind of the lime ...
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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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