
Ruth Barbour
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LOCATION: London SW1V 3NW, United Kingdom
Lecturer in Greek Palaeography, University of Oxford, 1960–67.
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Calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting. The term may derive from the Greek words for “beauty” (kallos) and “to write” (graphein). It implies a sure knowledge of the correct form of letters—i.e., the conventional signs by which language can be communicated—and the skill to make them with such…
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