Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography

Klappentext The revised 1912 edition of a respected work tracing Greek and Latin handwriting from earliest times to the fifteenth century. Zusammenfassung This study of the history and development of Greek and Latin handwriting from earliest times to the end of the fifteenth century is copiously illustrated with photographic plates. Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (1840–1929) revised and expanded a shorter work of 1893 to produce this highly respected and illustrated edition in 1912. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. History of the Greek and Latin alphabets; 2. Materials used to receive writing; 3. Materials used to receive writing (cont.); 4. Writing implements; 5. Forms of books; 6. Stichometry and colometry; 7. Abbreviations and contractions; 8. Greek palaeography; 9. Greek palaeography (cont.); 10. Greek palaeography (cont.); 11. Greek palaeography (cont.); 12. Greek palaeography (cont.); 13. Latin palaeography; 14. Latin palaeography (cont.); 15. Latin palaeography (cont.); 16. Latin palaeography (cont.); 17. Latin palaeography (cont.); 18. Latin palaeography (cont.); 19. Latin palaeography (cont.); Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Maunde Thompson, Thompson Edward Maunde
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2013
• EAN: 9781108061810
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06181-0
• No. of pages: 622
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Palaeography (History Of Writing), Palaeography