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Politics and script : aspects of authority and freedom in the development of Graeco-Latin script from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D.
- Title
- Politics and script : aspects of authority and freedom in the development of Graeco-Latin script from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D. / Stanley Morison ; edited and completed by Nicolas Barker.
- Author
- Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967.
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1972.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Barker, Nicolas
- Description
- [5], 361 p. illus., facsims.; 28 cm.
- Series Statement
- The Lyell lectures ; 1957
- Uniform Title
- Lyell lectures ; 1957.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Autographs (Provenance)
- Note
- Lectures delivered in 1957, reworked and elaborated for publication.
- An "unrevised proof" edition of the original lectures was issued in 1957? under title: Aspects of authority and freedom in relation to Graeco-Latin script, inscription, and type, sixth century B.C. to twentieth century A.D.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 341-345.
- Contents
- From the Greek inscription at Melos of the sixth-fifth century B.C. to the Latin inscription at Rome of the first century A.D. -- From rustic to half-uncial -- Second-century phyrygia to eighth-century Gaul -- From the psalm-book of St. columba, c. 561, to the gospel-book of Henry III, c. 1046 -- From the Eastern Schism, 1054, to the end of the Western Schism, 1417 -- From Martin V, 1417-1431, to Sixtus V, 1585-1590 -- From the French Academy to the industrial revolution.
- ISBN
- 0198181469
- 9780198181460
- LCCN
- 72194122
- OCLC
- ocm00488991
- 488991
- SCSB-113048
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library