Lettering designed to highlight certain parts of a manuscript such as the title, subtitle, opening, scholia, lemmata, subscription, contents and initials; single sentences such as Biblical quotations from the surrounding text; and book and chapter numberings ( Scripts).
For Greek scripts it is usual, apart from rare examples in majuscule codices, to talk of display scripts only after the minuscule became established, and to distinguish …
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Eleuteri, Paolo (Venice) and
Frioli, Donatella (Rimini),
“Display scripts”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
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