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 . t take placeimmediately, but was gradual. Hujus fcedulae fcriplio dominie e incarnationis anno 749. IndiSlione 2, inloco celebre cuts vocabulum ejl God/nundes—Laech XXXIII. anno Aedelbaldi/madtt-J Regis pa€ta-i N° 11, in plate feventeen, exhibits a fpecimen of writing partly inRoman-Saxon, and partly in Set-Saxon characters, taken from a copy ofthe four gofpels, in the Roya
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 . t take placeimmediately, but was gradual. Hujus fcedulae fcriplio dominie e incarnationis anno 749. IndiSlione 2, inloco celebre cuts vocabulum ejl God/nundes—Laech XXXIII. anno Aedelbaldi/madtt-J Regis pa€ta-i N° 11, in plate feventeen, exhibits a fpecimen of writing partly inRoman-Saxon, and partly in Set-Saxon characters, taken from a copy ofthe four gofpels, in the Royal Library (1 B. 7.) and written in the eighthcentury. ^uoniamquidem multi co-nati funt ordinarenarrationem ^in nobis 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 Canterbury, which is now preferved in the library of CorpusChrifti College in Cambridge, (G. 2). This MS. was written in Englandm the eighth century, though fomewhat later than that laft mentioned. It. 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 in an ancient chair,writing : whether the bird at his ear, is bringing him food, or intelligence, irU ni re/urn,. the lire ltlelr may determine.^ The words are, Hieronimus Pre/biter, natus a patre Eufebio hunc librum Jcripfit in Beth*leem In loco viddicet -melitum qui vocatur litojirotos ; term-amis ait. N° 4, in the fifteenth plate, is taken from a MS. in the Harleian li-brary, (N° 2965), written in England in the eighth century, in ftrongSet-Saxon characters. It is obfer
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