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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.