Latin palaeography : antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Latin palaeography : antiquity and the Middle Ages
Cambridge University Press, 1990
- : hard
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters
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Translation of: Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters
Originally published: Berlin : E. Schmidt Verlag, 1979. 2nd rev. ed. 1986
"Published in association with the Medieval Academy of Ireland"--T.p.
Bibliography: p. 239-259
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.
Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Codicology: 1. Writing materials and writing tools
- 2. The external characteristics of the written heritage
- 3. Writing and copying
- Part II. The History of Latin Script: 4. Latin script in antiquity
- 5. Latin handwriting in the Middle Ages
- 6. Supplement
- Part III. The Manuscript in Cultural History: 7. Roman and Christian antiquity
- Plates
- Bibliography
- Index of names and subjects.
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