Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography
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THE HANDBOOK OF GREEK AND LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY by EDWARD MATJNDE THOMPSON. Originally published in 1893. PREFACE. THIS Hand-book does not pretend to give more than an outline of the very large subject of Greek and Latin Palaeography. It must be regarded as an introduction to tlie study of the subject, indicating tlie different branches into which it is divided and suggesting the lines to be followed, rather than attempting full in struction. It in. no way supersedes the use of such works as the collections of facsimiles issued by the Palasographical Society and by other societies and scholars at home and abroad; but it is hoped that it will serve as an aid to the more intelligent and profitable study of them. Our conclusions as to the course of development of the handwritings of former ages are based on our know ledge and experience of the development of modern forms of writing. Children at school learn to write by copying formal text-hands in their copy-books, and the handwriting of each child will bear the impress of the models. But as he grows up the child developes a handwriting of his own, diverging more and more from the models, but never altogether divesting itself of their first influence. Thus, at all times, we have numerous individual handwritings, but each bearing the stamp of its school and of its period ; and they, in their turn, re act upon and modify the writing of the next generation. In this way have arisen the handwritings of nations viii Preface. and districts, of centuries and periods, all distinguish able from eacli other by the trained eye. And tlie i acuity o distinction is not entirely, but to a very great degree, dependent on familiarity. Anyone will readily distinguish the handwritings of individuals of his own time, and will recognise his friends writing at a glance as easily as he recognizes his face ; he has more difficulty in discriminating between the individual handwritings of a foreign country. Set before him specimens of the writing
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