Palæography

About this eBook

Author

Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899

Title

Palæography Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

Z: Bibliography, Library science

Subject

Paleography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

45170

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45170

Release Date

March 18, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Foreword — The Beginnings of Writing — Writing in Egypt 5000 B.C. — Progress of the Art, B.C. 2500-1500 — The Semitic Alphabet about 1700 B.C. — The Alphabet in European Greece, 800 B.C. — Writing in Italy from 700 to 100 B.C. — Roman Writing. — Indian Writing about 300 B.C. — Writing in Central Asia from 300 B.C. — Oriental Letters after the beginning of the Christian Era — Spain and Gaul under the Romans — Influence of the Bible upon writing — The British Isles during the Roman period — The Goths and Germans — Irish and British writing — Origin of Mediæval Illumination — Merowingian, Lombardic, Visigothic — The Carolingian Renewal — A Review at the standpoint of the Ninth Century — Byzantine Work — The Tenth Century — Scandinavian Writing — The Slavonic Alphabet — The Illuminated MSS. of the Middle Ages — The chief Liturgical Books distinguished — The Fourteenth Century in Italy and Germany — English Work in the Fourteenth Century — French Work in the Fourteenth Century — The Fifteenth Century — Illuminated Borders in the Fifteenth Century — End of the Fifteenth Century — Remarks on the subjects reproduced in the plates — INDEX.

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