Latin paleography : antiquity and the Middle Ages /

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Author / Creator:Bischoff, Bernhard, 1906-1991
Uniform title:Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters. English
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Description:xi, 291 p., [50] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
German
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/986549
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ISBN:0521364736
0521367263 (pbk.)
Notes:Translation of: Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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