Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... official copy kept in the temple of Augustus at Rome . The repetition of the deed in one and the same diploma is paralleled in some of the Assyrian tablets , which , after being inscribed , received an outer casing of clay on which the ...
... official copy kept in the temple of Augustus at Rome . The repetition of the deed in one and the same diploma is paralleled in some of the Assyrian tablets , which , after being inscribed , received an outer casing of clay on which the ...
Page 34
... official documents ; several papyrus deeds of their period , dated from 625 to 692 , being still preserved in the French archives . Skins . The skins of animals are of such a durable nature that it is no matter for surprise to find that ...
... official documents ; several papyrus deeds of their period , dated from 625 to 692 , being still preserved in the French archives . Skins . The skins of animals are of such a durable nature that it is no matter for surprise to find that ...
Page 58
... official despatches appear to have been written " transversâ chartâ , " that is , with the lines parallel with the breadth of the roll . Suetonius , Jul . Cæs . 56 . See an engraving , from a sculptured sarcophagus , in Darem- berg and ...
... official despatches appear to have been written " transversâ chartâ , " that is , with the lines parallel with the breadth of the roll . Suetonius , Jul . Cæs . 56 . See an engraving , from a sculptured sarcophagus , in Darem- berg and ...
Page 105
... official , and money scotza its numerals . V1 . it for med 14 onasi ere 11 This is not the place to discuss the origin of -13 Roman numerals ; it is sufficient to say that the appanam was not an alphabetical one , for , although C has ...
... official , and money scotza its numerals . V1 . it for med 14 onasi ere 11 This is not the place to discuss the origin of -13 Roman numerals ; it is sufficient to say that the appanam was not an alphabetical one , for , although C has ...
Page 108
... officials , who had probably diverted the allowances to their own use , were disregarded . Again the good Ptolemy came ... official was referred again to another , who in his turn , passed it on to a third ; reports were returned , duly ...
... officials , who had probably diverted the allowances to their own use , were disregarded . Again the good Ptolemy came ... official was referred again to another , who in his turn , passed it on to a third ; reports were returned , duly ...
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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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