Handbook of Greek and Latin palaeographyD. Appleton, 1893 - 343 pages |
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Page viii
... writing of one century is to him the same as the writing of another , and he may fail to name the locality where a MS . was written by the breadth of a whole continent . Palæographical knowledge was formerly confined to a few , chiefly ...
... writing of one century is to him the same as the writing of another , and he may fail to name the locality where a MS . was written by the breadth of a whole continent . Palæographical knowledge was formerly confined to a few , chiefly ...
Page xi
... writing : Leaves- Bark - Linen - Clay and Pottery - Wall - spaces - Metals -Lead - Bronze - Wood - Waxen and other Tablets- Greek Waxen Tablets - Latin Waxen Tablets CHAPTER III . — Materials used to receive writing ( continued ) ...
... writing : Leaves- Bark - Linen - Clay and Pottery - Wall - spaces - Metals -Lead - Bronze - Wood - Waxen and other Tablets- Greek Waxen Tablets - Latin Waxen Tablets CHAPTER III . — Materials used to receive writing ( continued ) ...
Page xii
... writing - Lombardic writing - Visigothic writing — Merovingian writing - The Caroline reform • • PAGE 203 217 CHAPTER XVII . - Latin Palæography ( continued ) : Irish writing - English writing before the Norman Conquest 236 CHAPTER ...
... writing - Lombardic writing - Visigothic writing — Merovingian writing - The Caroline reform • • PAGE 203 217 CHAPTER XVII . - Latin Palæography ( continued ) : Irish writing - English writing before the Norman Conquest 236 CHAPTER ...
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... written symbols of sounds , first as verbal signs representing entire words , then as syllabic signs of the articulations of which words are composed . The last stage of development , whereby the syllabic signs are at length taken as ...
... written symbols of sounds , first as verbal signs representing entire words , then as syllabic signs of the articulations of which words are composed . The last stage of development , whereby the syllabic signs are at length taken as ...
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... written from right to left , so in the earliest Greek inscriptions we find the same order followed . Next came the method of writing called boustrophedon , in which the written lines run alternately from right to left and from left to ...
... written from right to left , so in the earliest Greek inscriptions we find the same order followed . Next came the method of writing called boustrophedon , in which the written lines run alternately from right to left and from left to ...
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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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