AN INTRODUCTION TO GREEK AND LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY Good+ with no dust jacket

Oxford University Press, 1912

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Year of publication

1912

Author

Thompson, Edward Maunde

Publishers

Oxford University Press

Edition

First Edition

Keyword

Movements & Periods History & Criticism Literature & Fiction, Palaeography Epigraphy & Palaeography Classical Greek & Roman, Medieval Mediaeval Language

Cover description

Good+ with no dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover

First edition

Yes

Description

Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Rear hinge cracked but holding. Front hinge just starting. Former owner's on ffep. Corners rouned. Small tears to cloth along lower edge of rear board. Minor edgewear to 1 corner. Minor rubbing to boards. Slight fraying to spine ends. Else VG. ; History and Progress of Greek and Latin Palaeography from the earliest periods represented by surviving manuscripts down to the close of the fifteenth century". The core of the book is a selection of 250 facsimiles of manuscripts ranging from Greek cursive papyri to the book-hands of the 15th century, and from Roman cursive writing on tablets and papyri through a succession of Latin book-hands as employed in medieval documents throughout Europe. ; 600 pages