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.
- Published by
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1972.
- Author
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- 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)
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- 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.