Hellenistic Bookhands / Guglielmo Cavallo, Herwig Maehler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cavallo, Guglielmo, editor.

Maehler, Herwig, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleography, Greek.

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri).

Books--Greece--History--To 400.

Books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thehandbook illustrates 94 Greek literary papyrus texts from Egypt and Herculaneum anddocuments the different types of scripts used in copying works of Greek literature, from the earliest surviving bookrolls written in the 4th century BC up to the first century AD. The aim is twofold: (1) to establish their relative (and, wherever possible, absolute) chronological sequence, and (2) to distinguish and characterize their stylistic features. Specimens of different types of scripts ("hands") that appear stylistically related have been grouped together. In their joint introduction, the authors

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Texts and Plates

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786611990398

9781281990396

1281990396

9783110210194

3110210193

OCLC:

609183879