Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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Year of Publication
1990
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Number of Pages
291 pp.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
New York, NY
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ISBN
9780521364737
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Translation of: Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters. Contents: 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