Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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Page xii
... Hand in the Middle Ages - The English Bock - Hand in the Middle Ages CHAPTER XIX . - Latin Palæography ( continued ) : Cursive writing - The Papal Chancery - The Imperial Chancery -English Charter - hand - English Chancery - hand ...
... Hand in the Middle Ages - The English Bock - Hand in the Middle Ages CHAPTER XIX . - Latin Palæography ( continued ) : Cursive writing - The Papal Chancery - The Imperial Chancery -English Charter - hand - English Chancery - hand ...
Page 58
... hand ; with the left hand he rolled up what he had read . To unroll a book was ἐξειλεῖν , ἀνειλεῖν , ἀνελίσσειν , ἐλίσσειν , 5 Before the time of Julius Cæsar , official despatches appear to have been written " transversâ chartâ ...
... hand ; with the left hand he rolled up what he had read . To unroll a book was ἐξειλεῖν , ἀνειλεῖν , ἀνελίσσειν , ἐλίσσειν , 5 Before the time of Julius Cæsar , official despatches appear to have been written " transversâ chartâ ...
Page 90
... hand from which that writing sprang . The history of that system , as we have seen , can be traced only imperfectly , from lack of material , and is , as it were , screened by the intervening system of the uncial biblical and liturgical ...
... hand from which that writing sprang . The history of that system , as we have seen , can be traced only imperfectly , from lack of material , and is , as it were , screened by the intervening system of the uncial biblical and liturgical ...
Page 91
... hand to be applied , as in the case of marginal and interlinear scholia , where contractions were always more freely used than in the text of a MS . in minu- The horizontal stroke which marked contracted words in the biblical uncial ...
... hand to be applied , as in the case of marginal and interlinear scholia , where contractions were always more freely used than in the text of a MS . in minu- The horizontal stroke which marked contracted words in the biblical uncial ...
Page 108
... hand . Among the recluses of the temple of Serapis was one Ptolemy , son of Glaucias , a Macedonian by birth , whose father had settled in the nome of Hera- cleopolis , and who had entered on his life of seclusion in the year 173 B.C. ...
... hand . Among the recluses of the temple of Serapis was one Ptolemy , son of Glaucias , a Macedonian by birth , whose father had settled in the nome of Hera- cleopolis , and who had entered on his life of seclusion in the year 173 B.C. ...
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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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