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  2. Copperplate script - Wikipedia

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    A copperplate script is a style of calligraphic writing most commonly associated with English Roundhand. Although often used as an umbrella term for various forms of pointed pen calligraphy, Copperplate most accurately refers to script styles represented in copybooks created using the intaglio printmaking method .

  3. Western calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    First page of Paul's epistle to Philemon in the Rochester Bible (12th century). A modern calligraphic rendition of the word calligraphy (Denis Brown, 2006). Western calligraphy is the art of writing and penmanship as practiced in the Western world, especially using the Latin alphabet (but also including calligraphic use of the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, as opposed to "Eastern" traditions ...

  4. Jesus preaches in a ship - Wikipedia

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    Hilary of Poitiers comments on why Jesus sat in the ship, while the crowd remained on the shore, writing, "for He was about to speak in parables, and by this action signifies that they who were without the Church could have no understanding of the Divine Word. The ship offers a type of the Church, within which the word of life is placed, and is ...

  5. Biblical manuscript - Wikipedia

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    e. A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical ...

  6. Spencerian script - Wikipedia

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    Spencerian script is a handwriting script style based on Copperplate script that was used in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1925, [1][2] and was considered the American de facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter. Spencerian script, an American form of cursive ...

  7. Textus Receptus - Wikipedia

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    Christian Frederick Matthaei (1744–1811) was a Griesbach opponent. Karl Lachmann (1793–1851) was the first who broke with the Textus Receptus. His object was to restore the text to the form in which it had been read in the Ancient Church in about AD 380. He used the oldest known Greek and Latin manuscripts.

  8. Leningrad Codex - Wikipedia

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    Look up codex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Leningrad Codex (Latin: Codex Leningradensis [Leningrad Book]; Hebrew: כתב יד לנינגרד) is the oldest known complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew, using the Masoretic Text and Tiberian vocalization. According to its colophon, it was made in Cairo in AD 1008 (or ...

  9. Categories of New Testament manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Manuscripts of this category usually present mixed or eclectic text-type. [1] [2]: 383 Category IV: "Manuscripts of the D text." [4] [5] Category IV contains the few manuscripts that follow the text of the Codex Bezae (D). These texts are of the Western text-type. [1] [2]: 383 Category V: "Manuscripts with a purely or predominantly Byzantine text."