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	What is Palaeography?
		Paleography is the art of analysing and reading handwriting.
		Analyses of the precise mode of delineation of letters, the identification of local script styles or individual scribal hands and the intricacies of punctuation and abbreviation can be used to trace influences across time and space, and even to trace the movements of individuals.
		Paleography is the precursor to an active and practical skill, calligraphy.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /whatis.htm (463 words)

	paleography -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		For example, epigraphy, the study of inscriptions cut on immovable objects for permanent public inspection, is related to paleography.
		Epigraphy is concerned mainly with inscriptions written in characters that are incised or scratched with a sharp tool on hard material, such as stone or metal; paleography deals mainly with manuscripts written in characters that are drawn...
		There are two kinds of formal approach to the field of grammatology: the traditional approach, as practiced mainly in the philological disciplines under the topic of epigraphy and paleography (see below), and the formal approach to sign analysis recently initiated in the United States.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108629?tocId=9108629 (422 words)

	Editorial: Digital Paleography
		Paleography is the science and art of reading and deciphering old or obscure handwriting.
		It is taught in a few history and literature graduate programs, at some specialized European schools (such as the Ecole des Chartes), and in certain genealogical programs.
		Perhaps in the future we will see the development of a new specialty of "digital paleography." Digital paleographers will be able to read a file encoded in HTML 1.0 and convert it to whatever standard may then be current, be it XML and a stylesheet, a handheld markup language, or an eBook standard.
	www.dlib.org /dlib/april00/04editorial.html (685 words)

	INTRODUCTION
		Paleography is not only a kind of “technical art” whose aim is to acquire some ability in reading ancient writings.
		Consequently, Paleography could be useful in many scientific fields, but particularly in those disciplines that use written sources, in the first place those based on historical research, as in the history of Literature, Civil and Cannon Law, and particularly, History in a broader sense of the word.
		Paleography, therefore, researches the texts having as support soft materials such as papyrus, waxed images, cloth, parchment and paper.
	www.unigre.urbe.it /pubblicazioni/lasala/WEB/INTRO_E.HTM (2043 words)

	Antiquity of Man hieratic paleography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This font and paleography provide a beginning step in a new approach to studying hieratic texts.
		The ultimate goal of paleography is to analyze past handwriting variability as a dating and locating tool.
		The paleography will also be organized according to Gardiner sign list codes for easy reference, and contain the hieroglyphic equivalents.
	www.antiquityofman.com /hieratic_paleography.html (1072 words)

	Album of Armenian Paleography - Stone, Kouymjian, Lehmann, Armenian Studies Program at Cal State Univeristy, Fresno
		The Album of Armenian Paleography, compiled and edited by Michael E. Stone, Dickran Kouymjian, and Henning Lehmann, provides a comprehensive selection of some 200 definitively dated, handwritten texts, sampled from among the 31,000 manuscripts preserved in the major public collections of Europe, the Middle East, the former USSR and North America.
		These were chosen to reflect the range of Armenian manuscript hands from the earliest dated codices of the ninth century to the cursive script of the nineteenth century.
		Each selected manuscript is illustrated by a high-quality colour facsimile of a typical folio page, and is accompanied by an alphabet table drawn from letters appearing on that page and a sample transcription of several lines.
	armenianstudies.csufresno.edu /books_for_sale/album_of_armenian_paleography.htm (824 words)

	RBS Manuscripts Course Offerings
		While the paleography of the early medieval and Caroline periods has been the object of serious academic study, late medieval scripts have hitherto mostly been examined (1) for reading literary and documentary texts and (2) for dating manuscripts.
		All students in this course must have had some previous formal introduction to paleography; in their personal statement, applicants should indicate the extent of their previous paleographic training and their knowledge of Latin, and briefly describe any relevant research projects on which they are now (or shortly expect to be) working.
		The paleography of cursive hands will be touched on rather than treated in detail, but the course will include laboratory exercises in which students will gain experience in transcribing different hands from 1500-50 to 1800-50.
	www.virginia.edu /oldbooks/bulletin/mss.html (1081 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By comparing handwriting styles and other features of a manuscript, the paleographer may be able to date a manuscript.
		Other aspects of paleography include the material which was used for writing, the format of those texts, and also the work of those who copied texts preserving the knowledge of antiquity for the sake of posterity.
		In the ancient Mediterranean world, people wrote on such items as clay tablets, stone, bone, wood (wood with a layer of wax), leather, various metals, potsherds (ostraca), papyrus, and parchment.
	www.earlham.edu /~seidti/iam/paleography.html (253 words)

	Murgia Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Paleography is the study of ancient writing, most properly writing on parchment or paper or equivalent material, such as wooden tablets, leaves, canvas, or any other material on which one can write with a pen, reed, or paintbrush.
		Latin Paleography covers writing from the beginning of the Latin alphabet through the Italian and English Renaissances.
		The easiest introduction to Latin Paleography is B. Ullman, Ancient Writing and Its Influence, originally published in 1932 (and so out of date in some respects), but published again (Cambridge, Mass.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /Scriptorium/Class/murgiabib.html (958 words)

	HIST H501 2600 Historical Methodology: Latin Paleography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the study of Latin paleography (handwriting) in the Middle Ages and to diplomatics (the study of charters).
		This course is essentially a practicum: by the end students should be able to recognize and date different hands and to have some facility in reading them.
		Each student will also pursue a project, involving a manuscript housed at the Lilly library, and there will be a final examination involving identifying hands, defining paleographic and diplomatic terms, and transcription.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr97/hist/hist_h501_2600.html (169 words)

	: Encyclopedia of Quran, Volume 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Andrew Rippin, G.R. Hawting, Patricia Crone, Herbert Berg, Bowering, Beatrice Greundler, and a host of others all weigh in on issues ranging from the Chronology of the Qur'an to its Compilation; and from Exegetical issues to the controversial questions of the Origins of the Qur'an.
		Excellent Scholarship marks the first volume's entries on the topics of Arabic Scripts, Language, and Paleography.
		It draws on recent research and scholarship, including the "paper grave" of manuscripts discovered in Sana'a Yemen which are currently being analyzed by German Professor Gerhard Puin.
	books.mysic.ca /9004136681++Encyclopedia+Of+Quran+Volume+3 (179 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Album of Armenian Paleography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Album of Armenian Paleography provides a comprehensive selection of some 200 definitively dated, handwritten texts, sampled from among the 30,000 manuscripts preserved in the major public collections of Europe, the Middle East, the former USSR and North America.
		Selected specimen pages from these manuscripts are presented in chronological order, and span the period from AD 862 to 1911.
		This volume will be an indispensable tool for any serious student of the Armenian language, literature and art, and its innovative approach to the study of lettering will be of interest to paleographers and codicologists.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/8772885564 (370 words)

	Palaeography: al-Ghazali's Website
		Arabic Paleography: A Collection of Arabic Texts firm the First Century of the Hidjra till the Year 1000.
		Publications of the Khedivial..." Bernhard Moritz, Arabic Paleography: A Collection of Texts from the First Century of the Hijra till the Year 1000 (1905)-a munificently produced collection of..."
		Arabic paleography/ Nabia aboot (In) Ars Islamica, 6 (1941), p.
	www.ghazali.org /site/paleography.htm (251 words)

	American Academy in Rome - Summer Programs
		This program is designed to familiarize students with the basics of Latin paleography, with equal attention given to paleography's status as an art as well as an instrument.
		In addition we shall try to understand paleography's emergence as a "discipline." That is, the term "paleography" dates back to 1708 and Montfaucon's classic work, Palaeographia Graeca.
		However, it was only in the late nineteenth century in the world of the German research university that paleography came into the orbit of the Geisteswissenschaften.
	www.aarome.org /summer/spap/partinfo.htm (400 words)

	Humbul Record : Byzantine paleography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The development of Greek script is illustrated with a set of digital fl-and-white images of manuscripts and manuscript transcriptions, arranged in chronological order.
		The selection of manuscripts is based on two main sources: Edward Maunde Thompson, "An Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography", (Oxford: Clarendon, 1912), and Franz Steffens, "Proben aus grieschischen Handschriften und Urkunden", (Trier: Schaar und Dathe, 1912).
		Thompson, Edward Maunde, "An Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography", (Oxford: Clarendon, 1912); Steffens, Franz, "Proben aus grieschischen Handschriften und Urkunden", (Trier: Schaar und Dathe, 1912).
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full3.php?id=5675 (231 words)

	Labyrinth Search Results
		An ongoing project on the history of medieval handwriting, paleography and the nature of literacy in the middle ages.
		Paleography and Codicology: an Introductory Bibliography by Martin Irvine.
		A up to date collection of links to all subject of the "Historical Auxiliary Sciences", ranging from paleography, codicology and diplomatics to numismatics, chronology, genealogy, heraldry etc. Part of the Virtual Library-History Network.
	labyrinth.georgetown.edu /display.cfm?Action=View&Category=Manuscripts (717 words)

	Ductus - an online course in Paleography
		It is designed to facilitate the teaching of paleography, in particular, the study of the history of western European handwriting.
		Individual analyses of over 60 sample manuscript facsimiles, including folios from The Book of Kells.
		A structured 14-session course in paleography and codicology.
	www.medieval.unimelb.edu.au /ductus (106 words)

	Greek and Byzantine Paleography Web Links
		If you have other suggestions for Greek Paleography web links, or find that links have expired or gone bad, please email me at halsall@murray.fordham.edu.
		Since the vast majority of surviving Greek manuscripts date from the "Byzantine" period, the links should be of general interest to all interest in reading Greek manuscripts.
		David P. Beneteau A page devoted to Italian paleography with a Paleography Working Area with worked examples.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/byz/paleolinks.html (1066 words)

	Calvin College - Meeter Center - Paleography Course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tom Lambert began studying paleography and working with Genevan source documents in 1989 under the tutelage of Professor Robert M. Kingdon.
		He received subsequent training at the Newberry Library from Bernard Barbiche of France's prestigious school of archival sciences, the École des Chartes.
		We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Sixteenth Century Studies Society for this paleography course.
	www.calvin.edu /meeter/events/paleo.htm (589 words)

	Folio, Manuscript, Paleography, Codicology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the Amherst Manuscript, which is possibly written during Julian's lifetime, we may be seeing in its corrections, Julian's own hand putting in lines her scribe has missed.
		In paleography one may well be giving texts from stone, as above and in the Ruthwell Cross, from silver, from wood, from fresco, from fabric, from skin, from paper.
		Latin Paleography, Diplomatics, Numismatics, Prosopography, Computer-Assisted Analysis of the Statistical Documents of Medieval History, Medieval Chronology: Theory and Practice, Medieval English Literature, Latin Philosophies in the Middle Ages, Tradition and Innovation in Medieval Art, Medieval Music in Perspective.
	www.umilta.net /folio.html (7247 words)

	Styles of writing (from paleography) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Styles of writing (from paleography) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		More results on "Styles of writing (from paleography)" when you join.
		More from Britannica on "Styles of writing (from paleography)"...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-58812?tocId=58812 (769 words)

	Research projects in discipline Paleography, bibliography, epigraphy, papyrology
		Research projects in discipline Paleography, bibliography, epigraphy, papyrology
		Een codicologische en sociolinguïstische studie van literaire en subliteraire teksten in het Ou...
		Doctoral projects in discipline Paleography, bibliography, epigraphy, papyrology
	www.kuleuven.ac.be /research/researchdatabase/project/H110.htm (131 words)

	SULAIR Resource : Downloads : Subject Specialist template
		or an introductory essay and bibliography see "Latin Paleography" in Medieval studies: an introduction (D116.M4 1992 Lane Rm); and Bischoff (1990) Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and Middle Ages (Z114.B5713).
		There are examples and descriptions of the major bookhands and notorial scripts in "Latin Paleography" in Medieval Studies: An Introduction (1976, D116.M4); and in Brown (1990) A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1660 (Z114.B76 Medieval Studies Rm.; Green Stack).
		Also, for examples of bookhands there are catalogs by country that continue and supplement Lowe (1934-72) Codices Latini Antiquiores; a palaeographical guide to Latin Manuscripts prior to the Ninth Century, 12 v.; Codices latini antiquiores; a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/medieval/mss/palaeo.html (725 words)

	Welcome to the Abbreviationes™ Website! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Abbreviationes™, the first electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations, is a powerful database designed for use in both learning and teaching of medieval Latin paleography.
		In reading exercises with students, Abbreviationes™ can be used quickly and conveniently to display variant abbreviations of a given word, thus broadening and enhancing students’ awareness of the various techniques used in abbreviation.
		If you already are an expert in medieval Latin paleography, you will probably have a good idea of what a given abbreviation stands for.
	www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de /philosophy/projects/abbrev.htm (1866 words)

	WEMSK19 Paleography
		textes: A. Paleographie: Histoire de l'ecriture et des manuscrits.
		A fair set of Forschungsberichte is found in: II Convegno
		For Latin paleography, etc., by far the best book is Bernhard
	www.the-orb.net /wemsk/paleographywemsk.html (694 words)

	Greek Paleography Glossary
		For a bibliography of indices of Greek Manuscripts see the distinct Byzantine Manuscripts file.
		For an guide to secondary literature on Greek Manuscripts see the distinct Byzantine Paleography Bibliography file.
		For paleography on the World Wide Web see the Paleography Web Links file.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/byz/paleoggloss.html (2794 words)

	WebsitesForMedievalists.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This happened with what would have been the most important link for paleography, Cappelli's Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine, once at http://www.hist.msu.ru/Departments/Medieval/Capelli/.
		It also has very nice drawings and photos of materials, etc. and of how books were produced.
		A complete edition, in PDF format, of the 1910 French translation of Franz Steffen's classic German history of paleography; mostly useful for us because of about 150 plates with transcriptions.
	cas.memphis.edu /~jmblythe/WebsitesForMedievalists.htm (1753 words)

	Introduction to Paleography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If not, look for other examples from the same time.
		A course in paleography can be very useful.
		The technique of the paleographer involves, on one hand, knowing the sentences that will typically be found on a certain document; on the other hand, identifying first words, then letters, by cutting out a photocopy (or by recopying: never destroy an original).
	www.francogene.com /search-fr/paleo.php (433 words)

	Wasson (1993) Early drama, art, and music documents: A paleography handbook
		Wasson (1993) Early drama, art, and music documents: A paleography handbook
		Early drama, art, and music documents: A paleography handbook
		Paleography, English; Paleography, Latin; Manuscripts, English; Theater; Music; Art; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; History; Historiography; 16th century; 17th century; England
	www.getcited.org /?PUB=103157532&showStat=Ratings (115 words)

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