A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 - Softcover

Brown, Michelle P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802072062 ISBN 13: 9780802072061

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1993

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Book by Brown Michelle P

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'What the book represents, in essence, is a mini correspondence course in palaeography. ... In a clear and coherent manner, moreover, Brown describes the function of various national hands and how they developed one from the other. ...An untrained student or interested researcher might use the texts and transcriptions as a means of developing expertise before embarking on a program of research' Epilogue/Epilogue 'It is a pleasure to read so successful a popularizing account, accurate, well-balanced and succinct, together with an excellent selection of illustrations from the famous as well as the less familiar of the surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.' Times Literary Supplement "The book should be in the hands of every classicist ...It has no rival here or abroad.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Reseña del editor:

For readers who wish to trace the evolution of scripts in the West from antiquity to the early modern period, and who want to read the work of their scribes, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of materials supported by 55 full-page illustrations from manuscripts. Brown provides a synopsis of each of the major phases of development, a bibliography at the beginning of each section, and comments on regional and chronological diffusion where appropriate. Each plate is accompanied by a facing page of commentary giving a brief description of the manuscript and its script, followed by a transcription of the text.

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• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0802072062
• ISBN 13: 9780802072061
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138