A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600

'What the book represents, in essence, is a mini correspondence course in palaeography. ... In a clear and coherent manner, moreover, Brown describes the function of various national hands and how they developed one from the other. ...An untrained student or interested researcher might use the texts and transcriptions as a means of developing expertise before embarking on a program of research'

Epilogue/Epilogue

"The book should be in the hands of every classicist ...It has no rival here or abroad.'

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'It is a pleasure to read so successful a popularizing account, accurate, well-balanced and succinct, together with an excellent selection of illustrations from the famous as well as the less familiar of the surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.'

Times Literary Supplement