First published in 1979, this work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance and outlines the history of book illumination. By setting the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture.
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"...this translation should soon become the standard textbook for the teaching of Latin palaeography in English-language and North American graduate schools. Both the author and the translators deserve our thanks for bringing this project to its worthwhile conclusion. We now have at our disposal in English not only a modern scholarly synthesis on the history of Latin writing up to about the year 1500, with the insights and intuitive judgments of an accomplished master in the field, but also an authoritative and well-documented treatise on how manuscripts should be understood as the products of their contemporary cultural environment." Phoenix
"...the combination of new ideas, the comprehensive treatment, the rich notes and bibliography, all complemented by the extraordinary judgement which is the hallmark of Professor Bischoff's writing, make this handbook unequalled and unapproached in our present literature and a superb guide to further study." Speculum
"Its publication is an auspicious occasion for English speakers who study western medieval manuscripts. The translators, paleographers in their own right, have understood and translated the text accurately and with skill. The volume includes twenty-three well-produced plates, superbly chosen by Bischoff to illustrate types of script and furnished by him with partial transcriptions and bibliography..." Speculum
"This book, by the most distinguished living paleographer, should be on the shelves of all those interested in pre-1500 writing. A manual intended for students, it is the most concise and reliable introduction to its subject, as well as a guide to further reading, with extensive bibliographical citations in the footnotes." Calligraphy Review
"...the combination of new ideas, the comprehensive treatment, the rich notes and bibliography, all complemented by the extraordinary judgement which is the hallmark of Professor Bischoff's writing, make this handbook unequalled and unapproached in our present literature and a superb guide to further study." Speculum
"Its publication is an auspicious occasion for English speakers who study western medieval manuscripts. The translators, paleographers in their own right, have understood and translated the text accurately and with skill. The volume includes twenty-three well-produced plates, superbly chosen by Bischoff to illustrate types of script and furnished by him with partial transcriptions and bibliography..." Speculum
"This book, by the most distinguished living paleographer, should be on the shelves of all those interested in pre-1500 writing. A manual intended for students, it is the most concise and reliable introduction to its subject, as well as a guide to further reading, with extensive bibliographical citations in the footnotes." Calligraphy Review
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Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Paperback)
Bischoff is one of the greatest and ablest scholars for such a work. The volume's 289 pages gives a good overall picture of the Latin scripts in the period covered. Very good facsimiles of actual manuscripts accent the text. Though not acid free (apparently), the paper is very fine and the paperback seems sturdy. It has all of the necessary indexes, including MSS referred to, but no index of Latin terms within the text. Bischoff could have devoted more space to ligatures and tachyography at least the topic is not ignored. The representations of the various scripts are clear, and the volume is well referenced. It is most likely the best text on Latin palaeography for this period of Latin. The price is also right. Mr. Gary S. Dykes (Sept. 1999)
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The most important writing material of antiquity until the first centuries of the Christian era was papyrus, which the Greeks had acquired from the Egyptians at a time unknown to us and which the Romans in turn took over from the Greeks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lateinische Palaographie, Monte Cassino, Mittelalterliche Studien, Millares Carlo, Gregory the Great, New York, Lateinische Papyri, Palaeographia Latina, Charles the Bald, Alittelalterliche Studien, Codex Amiatinus, Hrabanus Maurus, Utrechter Kartauser, Bayer Akad, Deutsche Schrifttafeln, Die Schule des Klosters Tegernsee, Gregory of Tours, North Africa, Pauli Sententiarum Fragmentum, Reg Lat, Script Lat, Akad Wiss, English Caroline, Munchener Beitrage, Old High German New!
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The most important writing material of antiquity until the first centuries of the Christian era was papyrus, which the Greeks had acquired from the Egyptians at a time unknown to us and which the Romans in turn took over from the Greeks. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lateinische Palaographie, Monte Cassino, Mittelalterliche Studien, Millares Carlo, Gregory the Great, New York, Lateinische Papyri, Palaeographia Latina, Charles the Bald, Alittelalterliche Studien, Codex Amiatinus, Hrabanus Maurus, Utrechter Kartauser, Bayer Akad, Deutsche Schrifttafeln, Die Schule des Klosters Tegernsee, Gregory of Tours, North Africa, Pauli Sententiarum Fragmentum, Reg Lat, Script Lat, Akad Wiss, English Caroline, Munchener Beitrage, Old High German New!
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- Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honour of H. G. Widdowson (Oxford Applied Linguistics) by Guy Cook in Front Matter
- Oxford and Cambridge by Richard Gloucester on page 148
- Matthew Paris (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: New Series) by Richard Vaughan on page 232
- Earliest Book of Tours by Edward Kennard Rand in Back Matter
- Collected Writings by Francis Wormald on page 223
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- Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages by Colette Sirat in Front Matter, page 236, and Back Matter
- Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Julia M. H. Smith on page 147, and Back Matter
- The Harley Psalter (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology) by William Noel in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Ancient History: Monuments and Documents (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World) by Charles W. Hedrick Jr. on page 85, and page 105
- Ancient History: Monuments and Documents (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World) by Charles W. Hedrick Jr. on page 85, and page 105
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