Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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Page vii
... 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 altogether divesting itself of their first influence ...
... 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 altogether divesting itself of their first influence ...
Page 87
... handwriting and of comparing the forms which individual letters and contractions take in the several documents ; while the recurrence of legal terms and phrases , which soon become familiar , gives him the key to correct reading . MSS ...
... handwriting and of comparing the forms which individual letters and contractions take in the several documents ; while the recurrence of legal terms and phrases , which soon become familiar , gives him the key to correct reading . MSS ...
Page 98
... handwriting of Europe , and had the authority to enforce the adoption of settled forms . By the eleventh century the later system had grown to full development . It reached its culminating point in the thirteenth century , the period ...
... handwriting of Europe , and had the authority to enforce the adoption of settled forms . By the eleventh century the later system had grown to full development . It reached its culminating point in the thirteenth century , the period ...
Page 130
... handwriting of the third century B.C. The oldest fragment as yet discovered among these remains is assigned to the year 268 B.C. The hands vary from the most cursive scrawls to what may be termed the careful official hand . But ...
... handwriting of the third century B.C. The oldest fragment as yet discovered among these remains is assigned to the year 268 B.C. The hands vary from the most cursive scrawls to what may be termed the careful official hand . But ...
Page 138
... handwriting is rough and irregular , and there is a general slackness in the formation of the letters which marks the late period of the writing , as compared with the cursive specimens which have already been examined . The prevailing ...
... handwriting is rough and irregular , and there is a general slackness in the formation of the letters which marks the late period of the writing , as compared with the cursive specimens which have already been examined . The prevailing ...
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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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