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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DOLL

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ITO, HIROBUMI, PRINCE (1841-1909)

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Ea See also:

OTTAWA

Ottawa—) As See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence in support of this view that the uncial See also:

hand of the vellum See also:

MSS. is to be traced back to the See also:

period of the document just quoted, we have the important See also:

PAPYRUS

papyrus found by Mr See also:

FLINDERS, MATTHEW (1774-1814)

Flinders See also:

Petrie at Hawara in See also:

EGYPT

Egypt, and now in the Bodleian Library, which contains a portion of the second See also:

BOOK

book of the Iliad. The See also:

writing is of the large uncial type under See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration; and there is now full See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason for assigning it to the and See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century at latest. Before the See also:

DISCOVERY

discovery of the document of the See also:

YEAR

year 88 there was nothing to give a See also:

CLUE

clue to the real period of the See also:

HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer; and now the date which has been suggested is corroborated by a fragment of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus inscribed with some lines from the same book of the Iliad (fig: 11) in the same large uncial type (Ox. Pap. vol. i. no. ao, pl. v.). In this latter instance there can be no question of the See also:

early date of the writing as on the verso of the papyrus accounts of the end of the and century or of the beginning of the 3rd century have been subsequently added. Yet a third example of the same See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character has more recently been found at Tebtunis (Tebt. Pap. vol. ii. no. 265, pl. i.): again a considerable fragment of the second book of the Iliad. ,u Thus, then, in the 1st and and centuries there was in use a large uncial hand which was evidently the forerunner of the See also:

LITERARY

literary uncial hand of the early vellum codices.

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