Handwriting of English Documents book by L.C. Hector

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1958. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> There was a time, not long past, when these 'circumstances' would have been said to be the province, almost the whole province, of palaeography. Until late in the 19th century few scholars would have questioned the accuracy or the completeness of Littr?'s only definition of pal?ographie as 'art de d?chiffrer les ?critures anciennes, et, particuli?re-ment, les manuscrits grecs et latins, les chartres et dipl?mes du moyen ?ge, etc.'. The special mention of charters and diplomas serves as a reminder of the origin of palaeography as a branch of diplomatic, the science of documentary criticism, in which its main function had been to enable the student to read the handwritings of the past by teaching him to identify their letter-forms and to expand their abbreviations. But today most scholars claiming to be called palaeographers would consider this a very restricted and old-fashioned view of the scope and functions of their subject, which, as now pursued, has little but its name in common with.

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Título

Handwriting of English Documents book by L.C. Hector

Editor

Edward Arnold

Fecha de publicación

1958

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Estado

Good

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