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Palæography

Subtitle: Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination

Bernard Quaritch

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Table of contents

1. Front matter 2. Foreword 3. The Beginnings of Writing 4. Writing in Egypt 5000 B.C.5. Progress of the Art, B.C. 2500-1500 6. The Semitic Alphabet about 1700 B.C.7. The Alphabet in European Greece, 800 B.C.8. Writing in Italy from 700 to 100 B.C.9. Roman Writing.10. Indian Writing about 300 B.C.11. Writing in Central Asia from 300 B.C.12. Oriental Letters after the beginning of the Christian Era 13. Spain and Gaul under the Romans 14. Influence of the Bible upon writing 15. The British Isles during the Roman period 16. The Goths and Germans 17. Irish and British writing 18. Origin of Mediæval Illumination 19. Merowingian, Lombardic, Visigothic 20. The Carolingian Renewal 21. A Review at the standpoint of the Ninth Century 22. Byzantine Work 23. The Tenth Century 24. Scandinavian Writing 25. The Slavonic Alphabet 26. The Illuminated MSS. of the Middle Ages 27. The chief Liturgical Books distinguished 28. The Fourteenth Century in Italy and Germany 29. English Work in the Fourteenth Century 30. French Work in the Fourteenth Century 31. The Fifteenth Century 32. Illuminated Borders in the Fifteenth Century 33. End of the Fifteenth Century 34. Remarks on the subjects reproduced in the plates 35. INDEX.

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