Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500
Distributed for British Library
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.
Frontispiece
Some symbols used and other miscellaneous information
Acknowledgements
1. General Introduction
Intention
Overview of the period
Preserving the past
The naming of scripts
Organization
A note on the transcriptions
A note on the abbreviations
Coloured Plates Section
2. Insular Background
3. Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
4. English Caroline Minuscule
5. Protogothic
6. The Gothic System of Scripts: Gothic Textualis
7. The Gothic System of Scripts: Anglicana
8. The Gothic System of Scripts: Secretary
9. Afterword
References
Indexes
Names of people and places in the plates
People named in the commentaries to the plates
Index of manuscript pages discussed
Index of other manuscript pages reproduced, tables, etc.
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
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