The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing (1784)

Astle, Thomas, 1735-1803 · London : Printed for the author : Sold by T. Payne and Son, B. White, P. Elmsly, G. Nicol, and Leigh and Sotheby · leaf 168

An illustration from The origin and progress of writing, as well hieroglyphic as elementary, illustrated by engravings taken from marbles, manuscripts and charters, ancient and modern : also some account of the origin and progress of printing, 1784, leaf 168 — comple-tae funt rerii&h, Plate eighteen, N° 3, contains feveral alphabets of capitals, initials,or uncials, and fmall letters taken from this MS. The firft fpecimen in the feventeenth plate, is in Set-Saxon characters,and is taken from a very fair MS. formerly belonging to St. Auguftinsabby, in… … Chap V. OF WRITING. 103 It contains the life of St. Paul the Hermit, and is worthy of attention, asit gives a fpecimen of the drawings and ornamented letters, which are fre-quently to befeen in Saxon MSS. of the eighth and ninth centuries. Thefigure is intended to reprefent the Hermit Paul, fitting…

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