Learn World Calligraphy by Margaret Shepherd

Learn World Calligraphy by Margaret Shepherd

Author:Margaret Shepherd [Shepherd, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8230-8230-8
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2013-06-26T04:00:00+00:00


Abstract and ornate, XPI, the Greek CHI, RHO, and IOTA that abbreviate Christi dramatize this gospel first page from the Book of Kills. The text continues in Latin with generatio in much smaller Celtic uncials. Following a principle called “the hierarchy of scripts,” scribes wrote the opening words of any document in older languages and scripts.

EAST

Greek writing survived centuries of foreign rule in Cyprus.

Cypriote artist Hambis Tsangaris uses ancient letterforms in this logo for his skolĭ charaktikĭs, “Printmaking School of Hambis,”



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