A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600

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.

• Introduction to Manuscript Studies
• Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition (Looking At)
• The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century
• The Medieval Book: Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)
• A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
• Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
• The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics)
• Beginning Illumination: Learning the Ancient Art, Step by Step
• Lexicon Abbreviaturarum: Dizionario Di Abbreviature Latine Ed Italiane