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Bernard Quaritch. Palæography
Palæography
Table of Contents
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
