Latin palaeography : antiquity and the Middle Ages / Bernhard Bischoff ; translated by Dáibhí ó Cróinin and David Ganz.

By: Bischoff, Bernhard, 1906-1991
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Cambridge England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990Description: xi, 291 p., [50] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0521364736 (hard); 0521367263 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters. English Subject(s): Paleography, Latin | Manuscripts, Latin | Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) | Manuscripts, Medieval | PaleographyDDC classification: 417/.7 LOC classification: Z114 | .B5713 1990Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
A. Codicology -- Writing materials and writing tools -- The external characteristics of the written heritage -- Writing and copying -- B. The history of Latin script -- Latin script in antiquity -- Latin handwriting in the Middle Ages -- Supplement -- C. The manuscript in cultural history.
Summary: 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.
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Translation of: Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters.

"Published in association with the Medieval Academy of Ireland.

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and indexes.

A. Codicology -- Writing materials and writing tools -- The external characteristics of the written heritage -- Writing and copying -- B. The history of Latin script -- Latin script in antiquity -- Latin handwriting in the Middle Ages -- Supplement -- C. The manuscript in cultural history.

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.

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