Citations:palæography

English citations of palæography

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1. (chiefly British, dated) The study of ancient forms of writing.
   • 1840, Charles Knight, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, page 149 ^DUP.:

     PALÆOGRAPHY. The study of antient documents, called by modern antiquaries ‘Palæography,’ is too extensive a subject to be canvassed at length in a work like the present.

   • 1864, Thomas John Gullick and John Timbs, Painting Popularly Explained, page 101 [2^nd Ed.; 1^st Ed. published in 1859)

     The study of the caligraphy, or penmanship, of ancient MSS. is replete with interest; and the art of deciphering ancient writings, or palæography, has received of late years some of the attention it deserves.

   • 1885, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, Encyclopædia Britannica XVIII, page 143:

     Palæography is the study of ancient handwriting from surviving examples.

   • 1895, E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead, “The Versions of the Book of the Dead”, §21^{1} & §27.1^{2}:

     ^{1} Palæography of the version.

     ^{2} Palæography.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2, “Manuscripts of the Bible”, §IV: “Latin Manuscripts”

     Palæography divides the Greek into uncials and minuscules; the Latin into uncials, semi-uncials, capitals, minuscules and cursives.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2, “Biblical Criticism (Textual)”, §B1ai: General principles of textual criticism, “External (Diplomatic) Evidence”, Manuscripts, Age

     Hebrew palæography, though more uncertain, presents fewer difficulties, inasmuch as Hebrew manuscripts are not so old.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 3, “The Carmelite Order”, §: “Probation and Formation of Members”

     Those who might smile at such elementary requirements should remember that reading and writing implied a complete mastery of the Latin grammar and a practical knowledge of the system of abbreviations and contractions, a knowledge of palæography which is not now required either of schoolboys or advanced scholars.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 4, “Historical Criticism”, §: “Written documents”, Authenticity and Integrity:

     The so‐called auxiliary sciences of history, i.e. palæography, diplomatics, epigraphy, numismatics, sigillography, or sphragistics, furnish practical rules that generally suffice to determine approximately the age of a manuscript.

     We must pass judgment on each manuscript and compare the manuscripts with one another. This comparison enables us, on the one hand, to fix their age (approximately) by the rules of palæography; on the other, it reveals a number of variant readings.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 4, “Heinrich Seuse Denifle”

     The first five years of this serial contain several articles from his pen, on various universities, on Abelard and other scholars, on religious orders, on popes, etc., Denifle’s extensive acquaintance with manuscripts and his skill in palæography were also put at the service of beginners in the art of deciphering by his annotated “Specimina palæographica Regestorum Pontificum ab Innocentio III ad Urbanum V” (Rome, 1888).

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 5, “Papal Diplomatics”, §: “Subject-matter of papal diplomatics”

     Under this last heading the whole science of palæography may be said to be involved.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 7, “Hagiography”

     With the developments attained by all branches of science in the course of the last century, the importance of archæological discoveries in that period, the progress of philology and palæography, the possibility of using means of rapid communication to obviate the difficulty of scattered material, hagiography could not but take a new orientation.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 7, “Ecclesiastical History”, §II: “Method and Characteristics”^{1} & §VI: “Auxiliary sciences”^{2}:

     ^{1} Systematic instruction in this field is obtained through the historical sciences usually known as auxiliary or introductory, i.e. palæography, diplomatics, and criticism.

     ^{2} How to treat the sources critically is best learned from a good manual of scientific introduction to the study of history (Bernheim); special auxiliary sciences (e.g. epigraphy, palæography, numismatics) deal with certain particular kinds of the above-mentioned sources.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 9, “Angelo Mai”

     However, on account of his proficiency in palæography he was appointed in 1811 to a position in the Ambrosian Library, Milan.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 11, “Palæography”

     The art of deciphering ancient writing in manuscripts or diplomas. It is distinguished from epigraphy, which provides rules for reading carved inscriptions, and from diplomatics which studies the intrinsic character of written documents, while palæography concerns itself only with written characters and the classification of documents by their external characters.

     …palæography has become the basis of all study of historical, religious, or literary texts. There are as many branches of palæography as there are different kinds of writings, but the science of Oriental written characters is as yet hardly formed.

     …Kopp, in his “Palæographia Critica”, laid the foundations for Oriental palæography, while devoting himself exclusively to Semitic languages.

   • 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 15, “The Vatican Palace, as a Scientific Institute”, §A4: “The Vatican Archives”, “History”

     By Motu Proprio of 1 May, 1894 (Fin dal principio), Leo XIII founded in the Vatican Archives an institute for palæography and diplomatics, his Decree being published on 15 May in a letter to Cardinal Hergenrother, the learned archivist of the Church (“Leonis papæ XIII allocutiones, epistolæ, etc.”, Bruges, 1887, 76).

   • 1914, Chandler B. Beach, A.M. & Frank Morton McMurry, Ph.D., The New Student’s Reference Work for Teachers, Students and Families, volume I:3, “American School in Rome” (F. E. Compton and Company):

     The object of the school is “to promote the study of classical literature in its bearing upon antiquities and history; of classical, Etruscan and Italic art and archæology, including topography, palæography and epigraphy; and of the art and archæology of the early Christian, the mediæval, and the renaissance periods within the boundaries of Italy.”

2. (chiefly British, dated) Ancient forms of writing, as in a manuscript or document.
   • 1822, Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H. in The Edinburgh Quarterly Review, №26, page 195 (quoted in: [1] & [2])

     We should like to have them collected by Dr. Young; whose acuteness and learning seem calculated to subdue the difficulties of palæography.

   • 1858, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, page 196:

     Judging from the palæography of the inscriptions, they may have been in use from the age of Augustus to that of Marcus Aurelius, or even of Severus.

   • 1898, Joris-Karl Huysmans (translated by Clara Bell), The Cathedral, Chapter X

     Now they are editing and printing a musical Palæography, one of the most learned and abstruse of modern publications.

   • 1900, George Charles Brodrick, Memories and Impressions, 1831–1900, page 255 (J. Nisbet & Co., limited):

     Still, it is fair to say that Froude consulted, more or less thoroughly, original MS. documents; whereas Freeman, perhaps rightly, thought it a waste of time for an historian to grub in palæography, […]

   • 1970, J. McN. Dodgson, Survey of English Place Names, page 72 (The University Press)

     The transition from Birc(h)- to Birt- is obscured by the palæography of -t(h)-, -c(h)-, undistinguishable in many sources.

3. (chiefly British, obsolete) Palæogeography.
   • 1896, The Geographical journal, № 8, page 67:

     Principles of palæography*— The value of palæontology; meaning of archæan land masses; search for ancient shore-lines; reconstruction of original […] ancient mountains.