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A Guide To Western Historical Scripts From Antiquity To 1600
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Author : Michelle P. Brown
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
A Guide To Western Historical Scripts From Antiquity To 1600 written by Michelle P. Brown and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with History categories.
Brown provides a synopsis of each of the major phases of development, a bibliography at the beginning of each section, and comments on regional and chronological diffusion where appropriate.
Historical Scripts
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Author : Stan Knight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Historical Scripts written by Stan Knight and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Revised and expanded, this book is an excellent survey of bookhands with its full-page, enlarged illustrations and solidly researched sources. It is a useful text for studying the history of manuscripts as well as the details of letter construction. This work also helps one make judgments about the technical condition of letter writing and its qualities of rhythm and movement, possible only when consulting an original manuscript. The author has gone to considerable lengths to obtain photographs that are well-focused and lit so that the tactile qualities of surfaces, ink tone, and flow are revealed. The author has chosen examples of formal writing that show a coherent and reasonably consistent relationship between methods of tool use and letter formation, making the construction of a script much easier to grasp in practice. He has also made the effort of selecting writing without idiosyncrasies of style."--
Historical Scripts
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Author : Stan Knight
language : en
Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company
Release Date : 1984
Historical Scripts written by Stan Knight and has been published by Taplinger Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Art categories.
Ancient Scripts From Crete And Cyprus
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Author : Jan G. P. Best
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1988
Ancient Scripts From Crete And Cyprus written by Jan G. P. Best and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
A Guide To Western Historical Scripts From Antiquity To 1600
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Author : Michelle P. Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
A Guide To Western Historical Scripts From Antiquity To 1600 written by Michelle P. Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Alphabets categories.
Ancient Scripts And Phonological Knowledge
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Author : D. Gary Miller
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Ancient Scripts And Phonological Knowledge written by D. Gary Miller and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic knowledge is 'real' or accessible, whence the ubiquity of syllabaries. Miller disputes this by showing that such tests do not distinguish relevant types of knowledge, and that linguistic analysis of the ordering and writing conventions of early Western scripts corroborates the evidence from language acquisition, use, and change for segment awareness. By coding segments, the ancient syllabaries represented more phonological knowledge than the alphabet, which was a poor compromise between the vowelless West Semitic scripts and the vowel-redundant syllabic scripts. A wide range of information about early scripts and their development is combined with a new theory of the syllable as 'Sonority Phrase'. The book's value is further enhanced by thorough discussion of the issues from a broad range of theoretical and applied viewpoints, including language play and change, cognition, literacy, and cultural history.
The British Library Guide To Writing And Scripts
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Author : Michelle P. Brown
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The British Library Guide To Writing And Scripts written by Michelle P. Brown and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An introduction to the history and techniques of writing that offers a thorough and accessible historical overview of techniques and processes, illustrated with examples, diagrams, and photographs of crafts people at work.
The First Writing
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Author : Stephen D. Houston
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-09
The First Writing written by Stephen D. Houston and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this book, leading scholars in the field discuss and analyse the origins of ancient writing.
Cuneiform
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Author : Irving L. Finkel
language : en
Publisher: British museum Press
Release Date : 2015
Cuneiform written by Irving L. Finkel and has been published by British museum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Cuneiform inscriptions categories.
Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive down to modern times, preserving fascinating documents from ancient civilization, written by a variety of people and societies. From reading these tablets we can understand not only the history and economics of the time but also the beliefs, ideas and superstitions. This new book will bring the world in which the cuneiform was written to life for the non-expert reader, revealing how ancient inscriptions can lead to a new way of thinking about the past. It will explain how this pre-alphabetic writing really worked and how it was possible to use cuneiform signs to record so many different languages so long ago. Richly illustrated with a wealth of fresh examples ranging from elementary school exercises to revealing private letters or beautifully calligraphic literature for the royal library, we will meet people that arent so very different from ourselves. We will read the work of many scribes from mundane record keepers to state fortune tellers, using tricks from puns to cryptography. For the first time cuneiform tablets and their messages are not remote and inaccessible, but wonderfully human documents that resonate today.
The Calligraphic State
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Author : Brinkley Messick
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1996-06-16
The Calligraphic State written by Brinkley Messick and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-16 with History categories.
"Throws completely fresh light on non-colonial yet modern systems of legality and moral power. . . . The picture given of Islamic legal education and practice is one of the best available . . . a compelling read and a fine book for teaching."—Paul Dresch, Oxford University