pa·le·og·ra·phy

(pā′lē-ŏg′rə-fē)

1. The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.

a. The documents whose writing is so studied.

b. The manner of writing in an earlier, especially ancient, document or set of documents.

pa′le·og′ra·pher n.

pa′le·o·graph′ic (-ə-grăf′ĭk), pa′le·o·graph′i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.

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paleography

(ˌpælɪˈɒɡrəfɪ)

(Historical Terms) a variant spelling of palaeography

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pa•le•og•ra•phy

(ˌpeɪ liˈɒg rə fi; esp. Brit. ˌpæl i-)

n.

1. ancient writing or forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.

2. the study of ancient writings.

[1810–20]

pa`le•og′ra•pher, n.

pa`le•o•graph′ic (-əˈgræf ɪk) pa`le•o•graph′i•cal, adj.

paleography, palaeography

1. ancient forms of writing, as in inscriptions, documents, and manuscripts.
2. the study of ancient writings, including decipherment, translation, and determination of age and date. — paleographer, palaeographer, n. — paleographic, palaeographic, adj.

paleography

The study of ancient manuscripts.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

paleography - the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)

archaeology, archeology - the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures

epigraphy - the study of ancient inscriptions

Translations

paléographie

paleografia

paleography

n → Paläografie f

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Rodriguez sat me down and provided a crash course on paleography that helped me recognize the handwriting conventions and abbreviations in manuscripts of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

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Pegg and Biller spar over translation and spelling issues in a particular Medieval Latin manuscript, showing students the importance of detail-oriented source analysis and the indispensability of extensive training in languages and, in some cases, paleography. While discussions surrounding medieval heresy are often dependent on jargon and presuppose readers' advanced theological knowledge, Antonio Sennis has masterfully edited this volume for undergraduate-level accessibility while preserving the topic's complexity.

Cathars in Question

The work of 25 scholars who participated in the 2012-13 Notre Dame Qur'an Seminary represents various specializations important to the study of the Qur'an, including Arabic language, comparative Semitic linguistics, paleography, epigraphy, history, rhetorical theory, hermeneutics, and Biblical studies.

The Qur'an Seminar Commentary: A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages

The book has since become a standard work of reference and a standard aid in the teaching of paleography with any focus on English.

Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500

Eschewing the mode of detailed case studies, the editors have instead encouraged expert scholars to demonstrate how we might "synthesize the many things we have learned from paleography and codicology in ways that attend to local topographies without succumbing to their particularity" (12).

The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches

"Alongside, it is estimated that new evidence on Mycenaean religion, linguistics and paleography will also be brought to light."

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A Companion to Bonaventure

The chapters in this volume, written by leading experts, present differing perspectives on Bury's responses to conquest; reflecting the interests of the monks, they cover literature, music, medicine, paleography, and the history of the region in its European context.

Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

The volume includes a further six contributions not related to the selected theme, discussing such topics as the paleography of early medieval musical notation, racial Anglo-Saxonisms in Charles Kingsley's lecture series The Roman and the Teuton (1864) and novel Hereward the Wake: "Last of the English" (1866), shifting roles in the cinematic sign of the grail, and the treatment of women in medievalist films in relationship to vengeance.

Corporate medievalism

Her group of eight scientists, including experts in paleography and geomorphology, zoologists and botanists charted new maps of the archipelago and listed its rare species.

Russian Arctic getting warmer

One essay that I found especially helpful was Martin Abegg's, "The Linguistic Analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls: More Than (Initially) Meets the Eye." Abegg provides a very readable primer on the various disciplines used to analyze the language and physical characteristics of a single scroll: paleography, orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment of Old and New Approaches and Methods

However, Ken-ichi Takashima ("Lan-guage and Paleography," in Studies in Early Chinese Civilization: Religion, Society, Language and Paleography, ed.

The old astronomical significance of the glyph and the word sui < *swats