- 1Dedication
- 2Foreword
- 3The Beginnings of Writing
- 4Writing in Egypt 5000 B.C.
- 5Progress of the Art, B.C. 2500-1500
- 6The Semitic Alphabet About 1700 B.C.
- 7The Alphabet in European Greece, 800 B.C.
- 8Writing in Italy From 700 to 100 B.C.
- 9Roman Writing
- 10Indian Writing About 300 B.C.
- 11Writing in Central Asia From 300 B.C.
- 12Oriental Letters After the Beginning of the Christian Era
- 13Spain and Gaul Under the Romans
- 14Influence of the Bible Upon Writing
- 15The British Isles During the Roman Period
- 16The Goths and Germans
- 17Irish and British Writing
- 18Origin of Mediæval Illumination
- 19Merowingian, Lombardic, Visigothic
- 20The Carolingian Renewal
- 21A Review at the Standpoint of the Ninth Century
- 22Byzantine Work
- 23The Tenth Century
- 24Scandinavian Writing
- 25The Slavonic Alphabet
- 26The Illuminated MSS. of the Middle Ages
- 27The Chief Liturgical Books Distinguished
- 28The Fourteenth Century in Italy and Germany
- 29English Work in the Fourteenth Century
- 30French Work in the Fourteenth Century
- 31The Fifteenth Century
- 32Illuminated Borders in the Fifteenth Century
- 33End of the Fifteenth Century
- 34Remarks on the Subjects Reproduced in the Plates
Palæography
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