Writings in Visigothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Gallican Capitals in Mss. containing the Second Subdivision of the first Division of writing found in Mss.” The title of the plate itself is nearly the same and in the margins of the accompanying text, we have, in the same way as before: “Second Subdivision:” of which the 1st Genus has no less than 10 Species the 2d Genus has 5 Species the 3d Genus-writing in Lombardic Capitals, mixed with minuscules-has 2 Species the 4th Genus-ancient Lombardic Capitals and Uncials mixed-has 7 Species the 5th Genus- Lombardic Capitals of different kinds-has 3 Species and the 6th Genus has 8 Species. Writing in Lombardic Capitals: exposition of plate xxxvi. The title of the first of these two plates is thus: “Writing taken from Mss., including the first five genera of Roman Capitals, appertaining to the First Division of the Second Class ” that of the second: “Writing taken from Mss., containing the sixth, seventh, and eighth last genera of Roman Capitals, written in an unfinished and negligent manner (or Rustic Capitals), appertaining to the first division, first subdivision, of the Second Class.” And, then, in the margins of the pages explanatory of these two plates, we read 1st Division, 1st Subdivision: 1st Genus, 1st Species, 2d Species: 2d Genus, 1st, 2d, and 3d Species and so on: the 3d Genus having 4 Species the 4th Genus, 3 Species the 5th, 4 Species the 6th, 3 Species the 7th, 2 Species, and the 8th Genus, 3 Species. Roman Capitals in Mss.: First Subdivision, included in plates xxxiv. Writing in Capitals, in Manuscripts of Italy, France, Germany, England and Spain. note c “Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique,” vol. It is stated in this Dissertation, that in 1720 the father of Blanchinius was permitted by the Venetian government to examine the manuscript in the Ducal treasury minutely and that, then, not even a letter of the writing could be discerned but that all those who assisted at the examination, were decidedly of opinion that the material on which it had been written was parchment. and deposited in a church at Prague and that the remaining five gatherings were transported in 1420 to Venice. Mark was taken out of this manuscript that it was afterwards said to have been written by the Evangelist himself that this Gospel was comprised in seven gatherings that the two last gatherings were given in 1355 to the Emperor Charles IV. It appears that, many centuries ago, the Gospel of St.
in the “Evangeliarum Quadruplex” of Blanchinius: in which it seems to be proved, that it originally made part of a celebrated Latin manuscript of the Gospels, written on thin parchment, and well known under the title of the manuscript of Forli. There is a very learned and interesting dissertation upon the subject of this manuscript by Laur. He, as has been said, thought the material it was written on, papyrus. Montfaucon assures us that it is, or was, written in Latin, and not in the Greek language, as was formerly thought to be the case: in proof of which he notices the frequent occurrence of letters which have no place in the Greek alphabet the D, for example, and the R. note e The vulgar tradition that this manuscript was written by the hand of the Evangelist himself, has long been discredited among the learned: but there seems good reason to consider it of a date not later than the commencement of the sixth century. Perhaps in ancient times, as at present, they may have been considered unbecoming the dignity of this kind of writing, and applicable only to writing in minuscules. But all these manuscripts are written in capitals. “But from all this,” say they, “it has been supposed, that they were only adopted by the grammarians, and used in the schools and that they were not generally admitted by the ancients in writing.” The Greek manuscripts published in fac-simile, in the two volumes of the “Herculanensium Voluminum quae supersunt,” do not appear to have them. Platon.) besides that the Grammarians give the rules concerning them.
note a The writers here cited do not intend to say, that the antiquity of the invention of the Greek accents has ever been doubted for in a note, at page 328 of the same volume, they inform us, that “they are believed to have been first introduced about 200 years before Christ, by Aristophanes of Byzantium, who adapted musical notes to the characters, in order to facilitate the learning of the Greek language, and the reading of it with a proper pronunciation and that their use is attested by Athenæus, xi.