The historical source book for scribes
By: Michelle P. Brown & Patricia Lovett.
Contributors: Lovett, Patricia.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Calligraphy.; Paleography.
Other titles: Source book for scribes
Description: "Why should we be interested in studying hand-written and decorated books? For the historian they are the link between past, present and future, as they are about people and yield a wealth of information about their lives, beliefs, aspirations and also symbolise the essential human need to communicate this information across time and space. For the scribe the manuscripts provide inspiration and information about letter-forms."--BOOK JACKET.

"This book is the first to put the needs of the historian and the scribe at the forefront. Large-scale examples of the manuscripts are included for letter analysis, with, in most instances, a full page colour reproduction of a page from the same manuscript alongside. Other selected manuscripts with clear letter-forms show the development of that alphabet style throughout the periods under consideration.

A whole page is devoted to exemplar letters of each alphabet style, with clear guidelines on how the letters are formed, including punctuation marks, an ampersand (or et ligature) and numerals. Each section includes a specially created piece of modern calligraphy, showing how the hand can be used today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 126) and index.
Originally published: London : British Library, 1999.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction by Michelle P. Brown 5; title: Tools and Materials by Patricia Lovett 7; title: Analysing the Scripts by Patricia Lovett 17; title: Capital Scripts 21; title: Uncial 39; title: Half-uncial 51; title: Insular Minuscule 59; title: Caroline Minuscule 67; title: English Caroline Minuscule 75; title: Gothic Book Script 87; title: Batarde 95; title: Italian Rotunda 103; title: Humanistic Scripts 111; title: Further Information 126; title: Index 127.