codicology
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- noun
- /ˌkɒdɪˈkɒlədʒi/
- Specialized
- The study of codicology reveals much about the culture and practices of past societies through their manuscripts.
Examples
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This thread hopes to bring together scholars working in any of the following areas: codicology, palaeography, book history.
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We seek proposals for sessions that might address genre and the form of confession, sin in works by Chaucer and his contemporaries, catechism and codicology, or remedial virtues and their sustainment of communities.
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On a more popular level, his Manuscripts of the Greek Bible (Oxford, 1981) is an album of photographs of manuscripts with his explanatory notes that introduced the disciplines of palaeography, codicology, and papyrology to a public who previously may have thought such subjects belonged to hospital wards.
Academic text (2007) -
In her research on codicology, she focused on the physical materials used in medieval bookmaking.
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Codicology involves the examination of ancient manuscripts to understand their production and history.
Synonyms
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Study of original texts and documents, including describing, copying, editing, and adding notes
The study of documents and handwriting that finds who wrote them or if they are real
Surface Forms
Morphology
codicology = codic + ology
Although the word ends with the recognizable scholarly suffix -ology, the base codic- is not a transparent standalone English word for most learners, so the meaning is not readily inferable from the form.
Etymology
The word codicology comes from the Latin word codex, which means 'book', and the ending -ology, which means 'study'. So codicology is the study of old, often handwritten books and how they were made.