A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (edition 1993)

by Michelle P. Brown

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
112	2	97,955	(3.79)	None

Add to your library

Add to wishlist

▾Book information

Member:	dcbyron
Title:	A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
Authors:	Michelle P. Brown
Info:	University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division (1993), Edition: 1, Paperback, 138 pages
Collections:	Your library, Art History
Rating:
Tags:	ancient, medieval

Work details

A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 by Michelle P. Brown

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

ntmoe, Laraka, kitmastro, rosegenn, jsphilobiblon, louknits, bessboo, Rev.Joshua.Voitus, prueda, libros

numbers

show all

▾Tags

ancient (2) ancient manuscripts (1) antiquity (3) art (3) BN (1) book history (2) books (3) books about books (3) calligraphy (14) early modern (3) high medieval (1) history (10) illumination (2) Latin (2) library science (1) manuscript (1) manuscript studies (3) manuscripts (15) medieval (25) medieval history (4) Medieval Manuscripts (2) medieval studies (1) Middle Ages (3) non-fiction (4) paleography (27) reference (3) scribe (2) script (4) vernacular (1) writing (2)

▾LibraryThing recommendations

see more recommendations for this work

refresh

▾Member recommendations

None.

▾Will you like it?

▾Member reviews

date ▼ | votes

Showing 2 of 2

This book is less useful than it seems it ought to be. I mean, it has actual exemplars, with full transcriptions, and historical info on the script used. But the pictures are black and white, and what's worse, pretty small - you can't really see how the individual letters are formed. And the text might be interesting to a paleographer, but it isn't particularly useful to a wannabe scribe. It's not a bad book, but. (

)

mpalotay | Mar 15, 2007 |

Facts and pictures from original manuscripts. Hard to go wrong with that - the rating should have been higher if the pictures hadn't been in black and white. (

)

sven_and_malin | Sep 30, 2006 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 2 of 2

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

▾Work-to-work relationships

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Series (with order)

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Awards and honors

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Publisher series

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary

▾Book descriptions

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0802072062, Paperback)

For readers who wish to trace the evolution of scripts in the West from antiquity to the early modern period, and who want to read the work of their scribes, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of materials supported by 55 full-page illustrations from manuscripts. Brown provides a synopsis of each of the major phases of development, a bibliography at the beginning of each section, and comments on regional and chronological diffusion where appropriate. Each plate is accompanied by a facing page of commentary giving a brief description of the manuscript and its script, followed by a transcription of the text.

(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:55:03 -0400)

(see all 2 descriptions)

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.