By Henry Smith Williams, LL. D. Author of " A History of Science". More Than Two Hundred Facsimile Reproductions in Tone and Colour from the Important Languages of Every Age, with Descriptive and Explanatory Text Based Upon :-- (11) Original Researches in the British Museum, the India Office, the Louvre, Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris, the Royal Libraries of Munich and Berlin, and the Astor Library of New York ; and (2) Investigations of the Palaeographical Society, Edited by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, K.C.B., D.C.L., V.P.S.A., Director of the British Museum ; George F. Warner, M.A. ; Professor William Wright, M.A., LL. D., D.C.L., of the University of Cambridge ; Professor W. Wattenbach, of Berlin, and a Company of Other Distinguished Palaeographers. Further Illustrated with Appropriate Decorations, Pictures, and Portraits in the Text