Their Hands Before Our Eyes A Closer Look At Scribes

Download or read book Their Hands Before Our Eyes written by Malcolm Beckwith Parkes and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from his acclaimed study of punctuation, Pause and Effect, this new book by Malcolm Parkes makes an equally fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Its purpose is to focus on the writing of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. The text is illustrated with 69 plates, and accompanied by a glossary of technical terms, which in itself makes a significant contribution to the subject.