Albert Derolez has developed new terminology for describing the different scripts in this detailed study of handwriting in manuscript books produced in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. This makes Derolez's survey unique and an ideal tool for
all interested in late-medieval book and handwriting culture. The text is illustrated with 600 drawings of letter-forms and 160 photographs of parts of manuscripts reproduced to actual-size.
Contenido:
Introduction
1. The manuscript book in the late Middle Ages
2. The Carolingian heritage
3. Praegothica
4. Northern textualis
5. Southern textualis and semitextualis
6. Cursive scripts in general
7. Cursiva antiquior
8. Cursiva
9. Hybrida and semihybrida
10. Gothico-humanistica and other 'hors systeme' scripts
Appendix
Abbreviated sources
Select bibliography
Index of manuscripts reproduced in the plates
General index
Plates.