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paleography
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......Aldus Manutius; they are said to have been suggested by the handwriting of Petrarch. As the Spencerian script of the 19th cent...document written in it, so one skilled in the history of handwriting can often assign a place and a date to a document of earlier......
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calligraphy
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......paleography. European CalligraphyIn Europe two sorts of handwriting came into being very early. Cursive script was used for letters...calligraphic styles from the 9th to the 14th cent.The humanistic handwriting style of the Renaissance, a deliberate imitation of Carolingian......
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Granjon, Robert
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......italic, Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. He is known especially for his caractères de civilité, based on a beautiful French handwriting and intended to take the place in France that italic type then held in Italy. The greater legibility of italic caused the Granjon......
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Mazarin Bible
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......about 180 copies. The text of the Bible is Latin. The type is a Gothic style related to Old English and similar to the best handwriting of the time. Colored initials and other illuminations were hand drawn. The pages of the book are folio, each page is in......
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Orrmulum
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......an Augustinian canon of Lincolnshire. Because the author had his own system of spelling and because the manuscript is probably in his own handwriting, the Orrmulum is of great importance for the study of Middle English phonology....
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Bar Kokba, Simon
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......successfully defeated the Roman armies, but the tide turned against him with the victories of the Roman general Julius Severus, and he was killed at Bether. Israeli archaeologists have found a number of letters in his handwriting....
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neural network
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......assessment, monitoring and control, and forecasting and prediction. Among the tasks for which they are well suited are handwriting recognition, foreign language translation, process control, financial forecasting, medical data interpretation, artificial......
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Ondaatje, Michael
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......Other poetry collections include The Dainty Monsters (1967), Rat Jelly (1973), The Cinnamon Peeler (1990), and Handwriting (1998). Ondaatje is best known for his novels, which also blend reality and imagination, exploring a variety of cultures......
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punctuation
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......place in a passage where material has been omitted or a thought has trailed off. The long dash (—) is especially used in handwriting for incomplete intonation patterns.Punctuation of material intended to be read silently rather than aloud—the far more......
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Tory, Geofroy
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......Estienne (an olive tree). His Book of Hours, which first appeared in 1525, introduced type design free from dependence on handwriting and established book designing as an art in France. His part in establishing French 16th-century printing of superb quality......