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palaeography

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palaeography
1. the study of the handwritings of the past, and often the manuscripts as well, so that they may be dated, read, etc., and may serve as historical and literary sources
2. a handwriting of the past


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A sampling of topics turns up birth and death statements, colophon, letterforms or allographs, primitive codicology and palaeography, quire, scribal etiquette, and vignette.
Arabic manuscripts; a vademecum for readers by Reference & Research Book News
In other words, art history, palaeography and the historical sciences more generally were in the midst of unprecedented change in the ways by which historical artefacts, and manuscripts in particular, were to be examined, recorded and compared.
The hand in the machine: facsimiles, libraries and the politics of ... by McKitterick, David / The La Trobe Journal
Julie Kanter, MA medieval history graduate, King's College London I studied the required subjects of materials and methods, Latin - intermediate and advanced - and palaeography, as well as my chosen optional classes of English royal government and Magna Carta.
So you want to study by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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