An introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography / by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson.

  • Thompson, Edward Maunde, Sir, 1840-1929.
Date:
1912
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    the CaroUncrian script as a Latin liook- lianil in England before the Norman Coinpicst, 429-80 ; the niinnscnle book- hand in the 12th cent., 480-7; skill of the English scribes, 437 ; inihiencc of the Italian script in Southern Enroi)e, 444 ; the niinnscnle book-hand in the 18th cent., ddd-.'io; in the 14th cent., 4r)0-04: superiority of the Italian scrijit, 404 ; the break-up of the book-hand in the lath century, 404-9 ; the Italian book-hand of the Renaissance, 470 2 ; the English vernacular book-hand after the Norman Conrpiest, 472-90 ; the offi- cial and legal cursive scripts in Western Europe, 491 sqq. ; Visigothic, Lom- bardic, and Merovingian cursive scripts, 492-505 ; developement of the Littera JioDiatia in the Papal Chancery, 495-8; the Littera S. Petri, 498 ; the script of the Imperial Chancery, 500-4 ; English official and legal cursive scripts. 505- 509; the Anglo-Saxon period, 500-12; Mercian and Wessex hands, 500-9, 511; English chartei-hands after the Nor- man Conquest, 512-54 ; English official cursive hamls, 16th and 17th centuries, 555-69 ; the ‘ Secretary ’ hand, 555-9 ; the Chancery hand, 560-4 ; the Court hand, 564-9; general adoption of the Italian domestic current scrijat, from the 16th cent., 505. ‘ Palatinus, Codex ’, Virgil, 277-9. Palermo, cultivation of papyrus at, 23. Palimpsests : process of obliteration of older texts, 64 ; destruction of liiblical MSS. forbidden, 65 ; extant examples, 65-6. Pamphilus of Caesarea, vellum codices written for his library, 31. Paudeetes, a Bible, 45. Pandects, Laurentian codex, 211, 299, 303-4. Paper: invention and history, 34-7; cotton paper and rag paper, 35-6 ; use of oriental paper in Western Euroi>e, 36; early manufacture and trade in Europe, 36-7 ; water-marks, 37-8. Papyrus: description of the plant, 21 ; later cultivation in Sicily, 23 ; antiquity of the writing material, 21 ; its use by the ancients, 21-2 ; method of manu- facture in Egypt, sizes, and qualities, 23-6; measurements of rolls, 25; manu- facture under the Arabs, 25 ; ‘ proto- cols ’, 25; its use in the middle ages, 26-7 ; in the Merovingian chancery, 27; rivalry of vellum, 29-30, 51-3; scarcity in Rome, 22, 52; employed for codices, 27, 52-3 ; gi-eat discoveries of papyri in Egypt, 93-100. Unpdypa(f)os, a short stroke marking the close of a paragraph, 58-9. rPq)(I'ypaf/)of, jiraedactale, implement for ruling linos, 43. Paragraphs, system of division of texts into, 58-9. Parchment. See Vellum. Paris, MSS. at: jialimpsest fragments, 66; ]nirple vellum MSS., 33; -^Ckkrk: Serapoum papyri (2nd cent, n.c.), 94; jiapyri of lIomer,96; dialectical treatise (2)1(1 cent. B.C.), 112-13; Ilyperides, Athenogencs (‘Ind cent. r..c.), 97,114-15 ; waxed tablets, 18 ; Codex Ephraemi, ]ialimpsest, the Bible (5th cent.), 208 ; Codex Sarravianus, Pentateuch, etc. (5th cent.), 208 ; Codex Sinopensis, St. Matthew (6th cent.), 209; Arsenal Psalter (9lh cent.). 270; St. Clement of Alexandria (a. T). 914), 222 ; Chrysostom (a. d. 954), 234; comment, on Porphyry (a.d. 1223), 250-1 ; — Greek-Latin : Vocabulary (5th or 6th cent.), 339; Codex Claromontanns, Pauline Epp. (6th cent.), 209, 270; Coislin Psalter (8th cent.), 270; glossary (9th cent.), 270 ; — Latin, etc.: Roman Chancery rescripts (5th cent.), 327-8, 331 ; Livy (5th cent.), 288; Acts of Council of Aquileia |5th cent.), 339 ; Prudentiu.s (6th cent.), 283 ; list of Popes (6th cent.), 305 ; St. Avitus (6th cent.), 27, 339; St. Augustine (6th cent.), 307, 309; Sfc. Augustine (6th or 7th cent.), 27 ; Lectionary of Luxeuil (7th cent.), 356, 358; Judgement of Thieriy III (a.d. 679-80), 498-9; diploma of Charlemagne (a.d. 797), 500-1, 504; Canons (8tli cent.), 362 ; letter to Louis le D)ibonnaire (a.d. 824-9 ?), 26, 184 ; Gospels of Lothair (a.d. 840-55), 411, 414; bulls of John VIII (a.d. 876), 495, 497; Sherborne Pontifical {circ. A.D. 992-5), 397-8; Benedictional (a.d. 1030-40),435-6; Mandeville (a. d. 1371), 460-1. Paschal II, Pope, Bull of, 496-7. Paschal computations, 391, 393. Paschasius, Lives of Fathers, 404, 406-7. Patmos, portion of Gk. Gospels (N) at, 33, 209. Patous, a Persian, sale by, 157-8. Paul, St.: comment, of Theodore of Mopsuestia on the Pauline Epistles, 362, See Bible. Pavia, bull in favour of the Abbey of San Pietro at, 496-7. Penicahis, penicillas, KovdlXiov, a brush to apply gold-writing, 40. Penknife, 43. Pens: examples of Roman bronze jiens, 40 ; early use of quill-pens, 40. See Reeds. Stilus. nfi/T<'nrTvxa, pcntaptycha, a five-leafed tab- let, 15.