Ancient Writing and Its Influence: Our Debt to Greece and Rome, V38

First published in 1932, this book remains a sound, concise, and expert survey by one of the master palaeographers of the twentieth century, covering the origins of western writing and the forms it took in antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Berthold Louis Ullman (1882–1965) was head of the Department of Latin at the University of Pittsburgh (1909), head of the Department of Classics at the State University of Iowa (1919), professor of Latin at Chicago (1925), and head of the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina (1944).