paleographer

Examples

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• For example, one of the best-known statements of the rationale of rare books, written by William A. Jackson of the Houghton Library in 1949, refers to the need for "original materials" in the training of paleographers, analytical bibliographers, and textual critics, and thus implies the importance of their kind of work for historical study.

  Academic text (1992)

• But it does matter that no paleographer has claimed to see one.

  Academic text (2016)

• However, some paleographers do not accept peer review as critical to the proof of their results.

  Academic text (2016)

• This example requires some consideration of paleographers' failure to agree on precisely reading handwriting for the purposes of comparison.

  Academic text (2016)

• It would be wonderful if paleographers could identify Shakespeare as the writer of three folio pages known as Addition IIc of the Sir Thomas.

  Academic text (2016)

• Thompson's and Dawson's arguments reflect the work of two of the most respected paleographers of the twentieth century.

  Academic text (2016)

• Paleographers would likely lack either the means to establish similarity or identity, or the motives to make "allowance" (to use Jackson's term) to account for any differences.

  Academic text (2016)

• In this case, the results emerged from the largely unintentional convergence of scholars coming from a wide range of disciplines: botanists, archivists, paleographers, experts in watermarks, as well as art historians.

  Academic text (1995)

• Skilled paleographers analyze ancient manuscripts to interpret historical writing styles.

• During the conference, several paleographers presented their findings on medieval handwriting.

Synonyms

P

paleographist

vspaleographer

• Specialized

9.9

A person who studies old handwriting to read and date documents

focuses on interpreting historical handwriting and manuscripts rather than archaeological work

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology