Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500Despite a resurgence of interest in the history of the English language, this work is the only book available to introduce readers to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to understand changes in scripts across time is through visual examples, and this highly illustrated book reveals precisely how Middle English is different from Old English and how these gradual changes have developed. Images from important literary texts such as Caedmon’s “Hymn” and the Lindisfarne Gospels demonstrate the chronological progression of the writing. |
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COLOURED PLATES SECTION between pages 1213 | 12 |
C6 Cambridge St Johns College MS L 1 f | 12 |
London British Library Cotton MS Nero D iv f 259r | 34 |
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abbreviations Ælfric Anglicana form anglicana formata Anglo-Saxon minuscule Bede Benskin BIBLIOGRAPHY Pr bishop Bodleian Library British Library British Museum Cambridge Canterbury capitals Caroline minuscule Chaucer Chronicle CONTEXTS copy Corpus Corpus Christi College Cotton crist cursiva anglicana cursiva Secretary Disc distinctive early Edward England example Facs fifteenth century glosses Gneuss gode Gospels Gothic littera cursiva Gothic textualis Half-uncial Harley Hatton haue initial Insular minuscule John King kyng late Latin letter-forms letters London lord main text majuscule manuscript margin mark Middle English minims Note Old English overline Oxford DNB Peterborough Chronicle Plate Protogothic punctuation punctus elevatus round scribe spellings stroke superscript textualis Tironian sign TRANSCRIPTION Troilus twelfth century Uncial vernacular Vespasian Psalter vowel wolde words writing English written yogh Þ(æt ΙΟ