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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books
  name:
    name part: Orsini, Pasquale
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (276 pages)
  abstract: The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of the different graphic phenomena. Although the various chapters address the history of different types of scripts (id est biblical majuscule, sloping poitend majuscule, liturgical majuscule, epigraphic and monumental scripts), their juxtaposition allows us to identify common issues of the comparative method of palaeography. From an overall critical assessment of these aspects the impossibility of applying a unique historical paradigm to interpret the formal expressions and the history of the different bookhands comes up, due to the fact that each script follows different paths. Particular attention is also devoted to the use of Greek majuscules in the writing of ancient Christian books. A modern and critical awareness of palaeographic method may help to place the individual witnesses in the context of the main graphic trends, in the social and cultural environments in which they developed, and in a more accurate chronological framework.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Scripts of the Nag Hammadi Codices -- 2. The Scripts of the Bodmer Papyri89 -- 3. Greek Biblical Majuscule -- 4. Coptic Biblical Majuscule -- 5. Sloping Pointed Majuscule -- 6. Liturgical Majuscule -- 7. Decorated Liturgical Majuscule -- Glossary of Palaeographical Terms employed in the Text -- References -- List of Papyri and Manuscripts -- About the Author
  target audience: specialized
  note: Pasquale Orsini.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Coptic manuscripts (Papyri)
  subject:
    topic: Coptic paleography
  subject:
    topic: Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
  subject:
    topic: Paleography, Greek
  subject:
    topic: Papyrus coptes
  subject:
    topic: Papyrus grecs
  subject:
    topic: Paléographie grecque
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Coptic manuscripts (Papyri)
  subject:
    topic: Coptic paleography
  subject:
    topic: Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
  subject:
    topic: Paleography, Greek
  subject:
    topic: Handschrift
  subject:
    topic: Majuskel
  subject:
    topic: Griechische Schrift
  subject:
    topic: Koptisch
  subject:
    topic: Griechisch
  subject:
    topic: Papyrus
  subject:
    topic: Koptische Schrift
  subject:
    topic: Majuscule scripts.
  subject:
    topic: dating of manuscripts.
  subject:
    topic: palaeography.
  classification: Z113.8 .O78 2019
  classification: 800
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Ser. ; 15
  identifier: 9783110575446
  identifier: 3110575442
  identifier: 9783110575408
  identifier: 311057540X
  identifier: 00017647
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 181207
    record change date: 20240212223439.4
    record identifier: in00004774095
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng