Volume 2

Universal palaeography, or, Fac-similes of writings of all nations and periods, copied from the most celebrated and authentic manuscripts in the libraries and archives of France, Italy, Germany, and England / by M.J.B. Silvestre ; accompanied by an historical and descriptive text and introduction by Champollion-Figeac and Aimé Champollion, fils ; translated from the French and edited, with corrections and notes, by Sir Frederic Maddan ... in two volumes.

  • Joseph-Balthazar Silvestre
Date:
1849-1850
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Credit: Universal palaeography, or, Fac-similes of writings of all nations and periods, copied from the most celebrated and authentic manuscripts in the libraries and archives of France, Italy, Germany, and England / by M.J.B. Silvestre ; accompanied by an historical and descriptive text and introduction by Champollion-Figeac and Aimé Champollion, fils ; translated from the French and edited, with corrections and notes, by Sir Frederic Maddan ... in two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ations made by these correctors, whose duty it was to ascertain the fidelity of the scribes—a class of men, in general, but little instructed; so that it was necessary that their writing should be revised by men of letters, who often added at the foot of the manuscripts certificates of having performed such revision. A specimen is added (No. 2.) of one of these certificates, copied from a fine manuscript of Lucan in the Bibliotheque Royale, which states that the volume had been revised by Paul, a native of Constantinople; and he wishes life and a prefecture to the reader; and to himself, life and fortune:— Paulus Constantinopolitanus emendavi manu mea solus. M. Annei Lucani liber IIII. explicit, incipit liber V. eelic[it]er. Legenti vita et p[re]fectura, scriptori vita ET FORTUNA. AmEN. PLATE CXLYIIL LOMBARDIC WRITING. XII™ CENTURY. THE MORALS ON JOB, OF POPE GREGORY THE GREAT. Gregory, born of a noble family of Rome, at first under¬ took the duties of a magistrate of the city; but subsequently renouncing the world, was sent to Constantinople on the affairs of the Church, and was at length elected Pope, by the unani¬ mous consent of the clergy and people, in A.D. 590. Anxious to avoid this honor, he withdrew himself, and wrote to the Emperor Maurice, requesting him not to approve of the elec¬ tion. ITe was, however, ordained Pope, and rendered his pontificate illustrious by the practice of the highest virtues, the introduction of Christianity into England, the reform of