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单词 palaeography
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Definition of palaeography in English:

palaeography

(US paleography)
noun ˌpalɪˈɒɡrəfiˌpeɪlɪˈɒɡrəfiˌpeɪliˈɑɡrəfi
mass noun
  • The study of ancient writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts.

    古文字学

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No direct evidence reveals either its date or place of origin, which can only be suggested on grounds of style, iconography, and paleography.
    • To do so, she learned Italian and Latin, and studied paleography.
    • Historical interpretation of medieval English documents and records requires a reading knowledge of Latin and French and training in philology, paleography, and diplomatics, as well as in history.
    • Scholars and scoundrels, judges and jackasses have fiddled with its diplomatics, paleography, translation, interpretation, and application.
    • In the case of the Arabic sources, a good command of paleography is required since many of them are still in manuscript form and transcribed in different regional scriptural traditions.

Derivatives

  • palaeographer

  • noun ˌpalɪˈɒɡrəfəˌpeɪlɪˈɒɡrəfəˌpeɪliˈɑɡrəfər
    • The failure to do so, Saenger insists, has not only hindered the sort of investigations that intrigue him, but has handicapped the palaeographers and codicologists themselves.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The idiosyncrasies of Shakespeare's handwriting have been analysed in minute detail by palaeographers.
      • ‘The script is very important for the date because the Aramaic script changed over time in ways we could measure,’ said a paleographer.
      • William F. Albright the famous paleographer said that every book of the New Testament was written by a baptized Jew between the 40's and 80's of the first century and very probably between 50 and 75.
      • The handwriting used in Italian documents from the eighth to the tenth centuries, and in some cases persisting beyond the eleventh century, belongs to the style palaeographers describe as ‘new cursive’.
  • palaeographic

  • adjective ˌpalɪəˈɡrafɪkˌpeɪlɪəˈɡrafɪk
    • The tablet itself was dated to the fifteenth to fourteenth century BCE and was the first undisputed paleographic monument of its kind found in Thrace.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Gossett's contribution to the Textual Introduction stresses the paleographic aspects of the editorial task, including the description, history, and nature of the manuscript.
      • It was also a remarkable stimulus for new archival and palaeographic research.
      • As he notes very self-revealingly, his paleographic skills and understanding of Basque and Spanish history were not up to the broad task, and he went off into other areas of Basque history for decades.
      • Such a comparison not only establishes a close paleographic parallel but it also raises the question of genre and audience.
  • palaeographical

  • adjective ˌpeɪlɪəˈɡrafɪk(ə)lˌpalɪəˈɡrafɪk(ə)l
    • Nonetheless, McCarter continued to refer to it for the rest of his presentation on the inscription's paleographical aspects.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Second, the author has chosen not to discuss in detail any historiographical or paleographical issues at stake in interpreting the manuscript tradition, aside from noting a few anachronistic details in certain images.
      • A full discussion of the palaeographical, archival, text pragmatic, and linguistic details of each of the 13 individual texts is required to understand the full meaning of the set.
      • This manuscript, although richly illuminated, is not all that interesting from a paleographical perspective.
  • palaeographically

  • adverb ˌpeɪlɪəˈɡrafɪk(ə)liˌpalɪəˈɡrafɪk(ə)li
    • And this justifies the suggestion of a palaeographically easy emendation that will not produce an interrogative context.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Remember that before the excavation of Qumran, all of the published Qumran texts were palaeographically dated no later than mid-1st century.

Definition of paleography in US English:

paleography

(British palaeography)
nounˌpeɪliˈɑɡrəfiˌpālēˈäɡrəfē
  • The study of ancient writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts.

    古文字学

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To do so, she learned Italian and Latin, and studied paleography.
    • In the case of the Arabic sources, a good command of paleography is required since many of them are still in manuscript form and transcribed in different regional scriptural traditions.
    • Scholars and scoundrels, judges and jackasses have fiddled with its diplomatics, paleography, translation, interpretation, and application.
    • Historical interpretation of medieval English documents and records requires a reading knowledge of Latin and French and training in philology, paleography, and diplomatics, as well as in history.
    • No direct evidence reveals either its date or place of origin, which can only be suggested on grounds of style, iconography, and paleography.
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