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11 Cards in this Set
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Scriptio continua |
a sequence of symbols without using space to separate words
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Pointing |
Medieval punctuation. It was originally rhetorical- that is it assisted in reading the text aloud rather than syntactic like modern English punctuation |
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Script |
A way of forming the symbols in a writing system |
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Palaeography |
The study of scripts |
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Majuscule |
A script in which all the letters are the same height, and usually each letter only has one form. |
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Miniscule |
A script in which letters are at different heights, and some letters have more than one form. |
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Display initial |
A decorated majuscule letter, the first letter of a section of text. |
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Rubrication |
used red ink to write or highlight a text |
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Mise-en-page |
a fancy French way of saying "page layout" for a medieval manuscript.
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Gloss |
Correction, translation, or commentary added to the main text. |
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Signe-de-renvoi |
A symbol that links marginal annotation to a location in the main text. |
