Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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Page vii
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson. PREFACE . THIS Hand - book does not pretend to give more than an outline of the very large subject of Greek and Latin Palæography . It must be regarded as an introduction to the study of the subject ...
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson. PREFACE . THIS Hand - book does not pretend to give more than an outline of the very large subject of Greek and Latin Palæography . It must be regarded as an introduction to the study of the subject ...
Page ix
... give a distinct advantage to the scholar who possesses it . I have to thank my colleague , Mr. G. F. Warner , the Assistant - Keeper of the Department of MSS . , for kind help in passing this work through the press . BRITISH MUSEUM ...
... give a distinct advantage to the scholar who possesses it . I have to thank my colleague , Mr. G. F. Warner , the Assistant - Keeper of the Department of MSS . , for kind help in passing this work through the press . BRITISH MUSEUM ...
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... gives an engraving of a leaden book , apparently con- nected with magic . In 1880 an imprecatory leaden tablet was dug up at Bath , the inscription being in Latin a relic of the Roman occupation . Of later date is a tablet found in a ...
... gives an engraving of a leaden book , apparently con- nected with magic . In 1880 an imprecatory leaden tablet was dug up at Bath , the inscription being in Latin a relic of the Roman occupation . Of later date is a tablet found in a ...
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... 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 called the ἐσχατοκόλλιον . Among the Romans ...
... 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 called the ἐσχατοκόλλιον . Among the Romans ...
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... gives ; but an ingenious explanation has been lately proposed , ' that he refers to the breadth of the individual sheets which together make up the length of the roll , not to the height of the sheets which forms its width . The best ...
... gives ; but an ingenious explanation has been lately proposed , ' that he refers to the breadth of the individual sheets which together make up the length of the roll , not to the height of the sheets which forms its width . The best ...
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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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