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 . thinSmall LettersX and meagre; the writing was fomewhat elegant, manyof the letters had long heads and tails. The fpecimen marked three inthe thirteenth plate, is of this kind ; it is taken from the Hexameron ofSt. Ambrofe above quoted, and is to be read, Qui vindemiam colligit•vafa prius quibus vinum infunditurmundare confuevit ne fors aliquavini gratiam enim
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 . thinSmall LettersX and meagre; the writing was fomewhat elegant, manyof the letters had long heads and tails. The fpecimen marked three inthe thirteenth plate, is of this kind ; it is taken from the Hexameron ofSt. Ambrofe above quoted, and is to be read, Qui vindemiam colligit•vafa prius quibus vinum infunditurmundare confuevit ne fors aliquavini gratiam enim prodejl ponere vitem ordine. A great variety of Lombardic fmall letters are given in the twelfth andthirteenth plates. The whole fpecimen, N° 4, in this laft plate, is takenfrom Origens Homilies on St. Luke, preferved in Corpus Chrifti Collegein Cambridge, (K. 8.) This MS. is written in the Lombardic running hand,which is very difficult to be read. Manufcripts written in Lombardic fmallletters, abound in abbreviations ; feveral of thefe appear in the twelfth andthirteenth plates. The firft are felectcd from St. Ambrofes Hexameron, 3 (9) MS. in my library. (L. i,.) Mmm/z/^rMH SjUTEBIS exa ra t Giim. »/. ^efcutcc^^cjintr
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