• Section I

» Ancient writing materials

• 1) PSI XIII 1300
• 2) PSI III 275
• 3) PSI III 276
• 4) PSI III 277
• 5) PSI IX 1027
• 6) PL III/973
• 7) PSI I 28

» The roll

• 8) PSI I 103
• 9) PSI V 514
• 10) PSI IV 361
• 11) PSI IV 422
• 12) PSI IV 428
• 13) P. Flor. II 148
• 14) P. Flor. I 93
• 15) PSI XII 1266
• 16) PSI X 1197

» The codex

• 17) P. Flor. I.71
• 18) PSI X 1164
• 19) PSI XIV 1371
• 20) PSI XI 1182

» Codex formats

• 21) Plut. 4.31
• 22) Acquisti e Doni 153
• 23) Edili 182
• 24) Plut. 2.16

» Scrolls outside Egypt

• 25) Acquisti e Doni 801
• 26) Acquisti e Doni 821
• 39) Acquisti e Doni 777
• 40) Acquisti e Doni 794

• Section II

» Manuscript production

» Parchment and paper

» Scripts

• 27) San Marco 257
• 28) Pluteo 74.7
• 29. Pluteo 82.1
• 30. Ashburnham 125
• 31. Pluteo 5 sin.6
• 32. Pluteo 90 sup.125
• 33. Pluteo 33.31
• 34. Pluteo 46.12
• 37. Redi 28
• 38. Orientale 11

» Format and funcyion The Bible

• 35. Edili 125
• 36. Pluteo 3, capsula I

» Bibliografia

» Credits

• Scripts

As far as script is concerned, in the Greek world various types of majuscule were used until the 8th and 9th centuries. Some of themost typical were the severe-style script, the biblical majuscule, the Alexandrian majuscule and the upright or sloping pointed majuscule. Between the 8th and 9th centuries the minuscule was also adopted, likewise in various styles according to the period and geographic area.The types that were used most widely until the 15th century—and, in some cases, also later—include the Philosophical Collection minuscule, the Anastasius-typeminuscule, the bouletée (n. 28), the pearl script (n. 21), the Fettaugenmode, the mimetic minuscule, the Hodegon-style minuscule and, particularly in Greek-speaking southern Italy, the script referred to as en as de pique, the small round hand named after St Nilus and his followers, and the styles associated with Rossano and Reggio (Calabria), and Terra d’Otranto (Puglia). In the Latin world, minuscule scripts and mixed ones using both majuscule and minuscule forms, such as uncial and half-uncial scripts, began to emerge in the 2nd–3rd century ad, alongside the majuscule, or ‘capital’, that had already been employed for some time. A series of national and local scripts —the insular, Visigothic, Merovingian, Rhaetian, Germanic and Beneventan minuscules developed during the Middle Ages, but they were all replaced at some point by the Caroline minuscule (nn. 27, 35), that came to predominate between the 9th and 11th centuries. In the late 11th century the Caroline minuscule became increasingly rigid, subsequently developing into Gothic script,which spread throughout medieval Europe between the 12th and 13th centuries (nn. 22, 29, 31). Variants of Gothic script and types (n. 33) t0hat adapted document or cursive forms (n. 32) for use as book-hands ultimately overlapped and, with the advent of Humanism, a new type of script emerged in Florence in the early 15th century. Inspired by ancient Caroline manuscripts, humanistic script (nn. 23, 34) appeared in the rotunda and cursiva styles.

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