Historical scripts : from classical times to the Renaissance / Stan Knight.

Main entry:

Knight, Stan, 1937-

Title & Author:

Historical scripts : from classical times to the Renaissance / Stan Knight.

Edition:

2nd rev. and expanded ed.

Publication:

New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 1998.

Description:

111 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-109) and indexes.
Classical Letters -- Majuscule Scripts -- Emergence of the Minuscule -- Gothic Scripts -- Capital Development -- Humanist Scripts.

Summary:

Revised edition of a survey of bookhands. Knight (a lettering artist and teacher) has selected examples that show a coherent and reasonably consistent relationship between methods of tool use and letter formation, as well as writing without idiosyncrasies of style.

ISBN:

1884718566 (hardcover)
9781884718564 (hardcover)
1884718574 (pbk.)
9781884718571 (pbk.)

Subject:

Copybooks.
Paleography Europe Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Calligraphie Guides, manuels, etc.
Paléographie Europe Guides, manuels, etc.
Cahiers d'écriture.
copybooks (instructional materials)
Paleography
Schriftkunst
Latein
Paläographie
Einführung
Beispielsammlung
Schrift.
Europe

Form/genre:

Beispielsammlung.
Einführung.
Handbooks and manuals
Copybooks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213773
Call No.: Z43 .K6 1998
Status: Available

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