Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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Page vii
... formal text - hands in their copy - books , and the handwriting of each child will bear the impress of the models . But as he grows up the child developes a handwriting of his own , diverging more and more from the models , but never ...
... formal text - hands in their copy - books , and the handwriting of each child will bear the impress of the models . But as he grows up the child developes a handwriting of his own , diverging more and more from the models , but never ...
Page 118
... formal hands which we must class as cursive . There is , indeed , in the case of the early papyri , some difficulty in drawing the line of division between the literary hand and the cursive hand , certain docu- ments being written with ...
... formal hands which we must class as cursive . There is , indeed , in the case of the early papyri , some difficulty in drawing the line of division between the literary hand and the cursive hand , certain docu- ments being written with ...
Page 125
... formal style , in which a likeness to the uncial of the early vellum MSS . is at once most obvious . In the first century , then , there was in use a set form of writing from which that uncial hand was evidently derived by direct ...
... formal style , in which a likeness to the uncial of the early vellum MSS . is at once most obvious . In the first century , then , there was in use a set form of writing from which that uncial hand was evidently derived by direct ...
Page 126
... formal uncial letters . As if more accustomed to write a cursive hand , he mingles certain cursive letters in his text : side by side with the round € , there stands in one or two places the cursive ( not shown in the facsimile ) , in ...
... formal uncial letters . As if more accustomed to write a cursive hand , he mingles certain cursive letters in his text : side by side with the round € , there stands in one or two places the cursive ( not shown in the facsimile ) , in ...
Page 132
... characters which appear in the most cursive shapes , side by side with their more formal representations . асфоритост тольтістом точты определфеткирынынты почтеме кратност кафілсті кодличномаро фарамиј точн 132 Palæography .
... characters which appear in the most cursive shapes , side by side with their more formal representations . асфоритост тольтістом точты определфеткирынынты почтеме кратност кафілсті кодличномаро фарамиј точн 132 Palæography .
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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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