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The handwriting of English documents

Author: L C Hector
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold [©1958]
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The chief object of this book is to moderate as far as possible the difficulties of reading presented by the hands written in England for administrative, legal or business purposes during the past eight or nine centuries."--p. 11.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: L C Hector
OCLC Number: 2231881
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 126 p. : facsims. ; 26 cm.
Details: STEER.
Contents: Introduction --
The Equipment of the Writers --
The Equipment of the Reader --
Abbreviation --
Scribal Conventions and Expedients --
English Handwriting from the conquest to 1500 --
English Handwriting Since 1500 --
Plates --
Transcripts of the Passages Reproduced in the Plates --
Table of Confusibilia --
Bibliography --
Index.
Responsibility: by L. C. Hector.

Abstract:

"The chief object of this book is to moderate as far as possible the difficulties of reading presented by the hands written in England for administrative, legal or business purposes during the past eight or nine centuries."--p. 11.

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