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 . Virgil,written in the year 498, In this M. S. the i is ufed for the e j as omnis • ?fiXPUCrt Com ZKZt6NT T AHlOTOl M fNcvuomG Locmisiao ca tHib C\UQ p ECCATJEStETCETBUV __ D AP lT,i BjLl C,TKVJ MCKOJlAfl saitca N7V mTi,1) iLr B 0 wLcf£jvmi n it m £ Lo d vr m,& 15 Tt\,xTi r i g n i a ION CA,M0 £ NA,M05T1 A3 oUm,^N G AT,K WcIaVD nil-AAXB LS1 QUI MJU X?A C£JU> Oi
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 . Virgil,written in the year 498, In this M. S. the i is ufed for the e j as omnis • ?fiXPUCrt Com ZKZt6NT T AHlOTOl M fNcvuomG Locmisiao ca tHib C\UQ p ECCATJEStETCETBUV __ D AP lT,i BjLl C,TKVJ MCKOJlAfl saitca N7V mTi,1) iLr B 0 wLcf£jvmi n it m £ Lo d vr m,& 15 Tt\,xTi r i g n i a ION CA,M0 £ NA,M05T1 A3 oUm,^N G AT,K WcIaVD nil-AAXB LS1 QUI MJU X?A C£JU> OiADltTTViOM- E JUOTINUS w IIQU 0QlV£M AGNAX AIESILIEMJLAIOR A1SIDIC A ^ASIOR ABAMtttT5D5V05iLlVAfMAN LSQUmXAfL Y MCEClN ISSEPOEIM D\4MSEDET-ETGkhClLlFlSCELL\MTFXlTHIB1SCO P(ERIDE3viOStiAEcFlVCitTlSMAocl M\C &Up • ICRE^ClTlMKORNS-QVlNMTUMV/ERE NO\40AJf RJDIJ^SESviBICITALn \JS 3 & GIK TKt4r?\IERIS WUNO Jll BRO SGRIPES] C W Cl - iLpNGtN irnilwriff ^centurion \ s. qui T3 hJ oLath re iMSTCEApERCUS^lt Ejcemplar Litemrunv fajiitaliurri in vetusffitmo C odir^ Hey a larum BLlUotbe^3odteuirwL ajWervcUv. Inter St I) TIattDhN0y5. Chap. V. OF WRITING. 81 omnis for omnes, and the ae are always diftinct, and not a; the d is fre-quently written inftead of b. Haec fat erit divae vejlrum cecinijfe poetam Dum fedet. Et gracili fifcellam texit hibifco Pierides, vos haec facietis maxima gallo. Gallo cujus amor tantum mihi crefcit in boras. Quantum vere novo, viridis fe fubicit eighth plate contains fpecimens of the capital letters ufed in the moftancient copy of the Rule of St. Benedicl, which is faid to have beenbrought into England by St. Auftin in the fixth century, and is now- pre-ferved in the Bodleian library among Lord Hattons MSS. (N° 93,) ofwhich MS. we mall fpeak prefently. This plate furnifhes us with curious examples of the capital lettersufed in Italy, in the decline of the Roman empire. Ro
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