paleography
IPA: peɪɫiˈɑgrʌfi
noun
- The study of old or ancient forms of writing.
- Ancient scripts or forms of writing themselves, as uncial, scriptio continua, or methods of using papyrus scrolls.
- (obsolete) Paleogeography.
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Examples of "paleography" in Sentences
- No, I am not a specialist in paleography.
- I am not an expert in paleography, I grant you.
- However these are based on the field of paleography.
- She was a pioneer in musical paleography and source studies.
- The date of the fragment is established on paleography alone.
- If you want to understand it better, take a course in paleography.
- Paleography is the study of writing in ancient and medieval manuscripts.
- He is an expert on the paleography and epigraphy of ancient Semitic languages.
- Katherine Tachau taught me Latin paleography, wrote letters of support, and gave general encouragement.
- I avoid using the term paleography in the Wordhoard, though, because most people don't know what it means.
- So confirmation of the Jerusalem origin of the stone avails nothing, nor particularly does the paleography.
- Also, you need years of study, a specialization in paleography, and several years of work experience to decode the ancient writings.
- Anthony Stevens-Acevedo, founder and assistant director of the institute, is also its expert in Spanish paleography and serves as lead investigator in its Dominican colonial research.
- After a full semester, however, of one class on paleography and another on medieval book culture (the latter with Chris Baswell, who is part of the team that worked on assembling the UCLA site), I can't help but think about the objects themselves.
- 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.
- This article was completely done on the basis of "the internal evidence," i.e., what the inscription itself said, as there was really no "external evidence" available at the time, except for paleography the second part of which was obviously by a different hand or a different handwriting style, as noted above, or fraudulent.
- By this, I have always meant as at "Qumran" -- the name scholars give to the subject of "the Dead Sea Scrolls" to avoid repeating this tedious phraseology -- it being the location of the River Wadi emptying into the Dead Sea where the Scrolls were found what the documents themselves say and not the more imprecise conclusions of paleography, archaeology or even AMS carbon dating, such as these may be.