A Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 - Hardcover

Roberts, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712348840 ISBN 13: 9780712348843

Publisher: The British Library, 2006

Synopsis

Despite 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.

About this title

About the Author

Jane Roberts is an art historian and writer. While working in the Royal Library at Windsor for nearly forty years, she wrote and edited numerous Royal Collection publications.

Review

“This book is set to become the only tool for teachers and learners of English medieval-palaeography.”—Journal of the Early Book Society 

(Journal of the Early Book Society)

“Hereis that rarity, a book for scholars and enthusiasts alike—for anyone, in fact, with a feeling for our earliest literature, and the manuscripts in which it has come down to us.”—English Studies  (English Studies)

“An immensely interesting and useful book for teachers and students of English palaeography, and equally for interested bibliophiles not engaged in any formal scholarly study of handwriting.”—Times Literary Supplement

(Times Literary Supplement)

Edition details

• Publisher: The British Library
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0712348840
• ISBN 13: 9780712348843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 328