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paleography

NOUN
  1. the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)

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  • So confirmation of the Jerusalem origin of the stone avails nothing, nor particularly does the paleography. Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
  • Although there is a paucity of dinosaurs in medieval literature (Saint Augustine excepted), I find that my interest in paleography is another way of returning to the things I find most moving about medieval literature: the way in which words touch us (and are touched by us) over immense swathes of time. Archive 2008-09-01
  • To do so, she learned Italian and Latin, and studied paleography.
  • In the case of the Arabic sources, a good command of paleography is required since many of them are still in manuscript form and transcribed in different regional scriptural traditions.
  • Katherine Tachau taught me Latin paleography, wrote letters of support, and gave general encouragement. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • Scholars and scoundrels, judges and jackasses have fiddled with its diplomatics, paleography, translation, interpretation, and application.
  • I have a set of esoteric technical skills (facility in dead languages; training in paleography and codicology, graduate-level training in several different humanities disciplines); I often work in archives with "real" objects, where I sometimes hope to find something no one else has ever seen; and some of my writing is fairly straightforward reporting on what I find. Wired Campus
  • In the case of the Arabic sources, a good command of paleography is required since many of them are still in manuscript form and transcribed in different regional scriptural traditions.
  • Hebrew handwritten books may indeed serve as a useful means for devising a comparative codicology and paleography.
  • Scholars and scoundrels, judges and jackasses have fiddled with its diplomatics, paleography, translation, interpretation, and application.
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