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
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1972.
Author
  1. Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967.

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Additional authors
  1. Barker, Nicolas
Description
  1. [5], 361 p. illus., facsims.; 28 cm.
Series statement
  1. The Lyell lectures ; 1957
Uniform title
  1. Lyell lectures ; 1957.
Subject
  1. Writing > History
  2. Paleography
  3. Lettering
  4. Writing > history
  5. Paleography
  6. paleography
  7. Lettering
  8. Writing
  9. Écriture > Histoire
  10. Paléographie latine
  11. Paléographie grecque
Genre/Form
  1. History
  2. Bookplates (Provenance)
  3. Autographs (Provenance)
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Lectures delivered in 1957, reworked and elaborated for publication.
  2. 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)
  1. Bibliography: p. 341-345.