Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle AgesThis 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 also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Writing materials and writing tools | 7 |
Wax tablets | 13 |
The external characteristics of the written heritage | 20 |
The layout of the page | 27 |
Tabulae | 34 |
Preliminary remarks | 51 |
Capitalis | 55 |
The development of handwriting from the late ninth to the twelfth century | 118 |
Gothic textura textualis | 127 |
Gothic cursive and bastarda | 136 |
Humanistic script | 145 |
Supplement I Abbreviations | 150 |
Punctuation and related matters | 169 |
Musical notation | 173 |
Numerals | 176 |
Older Roman cursive | 61 |
Later Roman cursive | 63 |
Uncial | 66 |
The older eastern halfuncial | 72 |
Later halfuncial | 75 |
Combinations of various scripts | 78 |
Tachygraphy | 80 |
Latin handwriting in the Middle Ages | 83 |
AngloSaxon script | 90 |
Visigothic Mozarabic script and Sinai script | 96 |
The development towards minuscule in Francia and Italy | 100 |
Beneventan | 109 |
The perfection and triumph of Caroline minuscule | 112 |
Ciphers | 177 |
THE MANUSCRIPT IN CULTURAL HISTORY | 179 |
Roman and Christian antiquity | 181 |
The early Middle Ages | 190 |
The Carolingian period | 202 |
From the tenth to the twelfth century | 212 |
The late Middle Ages | 224 |
The age of humanism | 235 |
Plates between pages 238 and 239 | 239 |
Index of manuscripts cited | 260 |
Index of names and subjects | 269 |
Index of authors cited | 286 |
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Common terms and phrases
abbot abbreviations Anglo-Saxon antiquity Arch Beneventan Beneventan script Berlin Bibl Bischoff Bobbio bookhand Buchmalerei calligraphic capitalis caroline minuscule carolingian Cencetti chancery charters ChLA Chroust CLA VIII Codex codices copied Corbie cursive datés decoration early Echternach Écriture latine eighth century eleventh century English example forms German gospels gothic Greek half-uncial Handschriften ibid idem Insular Insular script Irish Italy Jahrhunderts Lateinische Paläographie later Leipzig letters ligatures Lineamenti lines litterae liturgical Luxeuil majuscule manuscripts medieval Merovingian middle ages Mittelalter Mittelalterliche Studien monastery Monte Cassino Monumenta Munich ninth century Nomina Sacra Nordenfalk Oxford Palaeographical Palaeographical Papers palimpsest Papyri parchment Paris Petzet-Glauning plate psalter reprod Roman Roman cursive Rome saec Schrift Schrifttafeln scribes Scriptorium scrittura Seider shafts siècle St Gall Steffens² stroke style Tegernsee tenth texts textura thirteenth century tironian notes Tjäder twelfth century uncial Vezin Visigothic writing written