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Definition of "paleographic" []

  • Of or pertaining to paleography. (adjective)

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Use "paleographic" in a sentence
  • "It was only the science that told us the right answer, the paleographic answer became absolutely clear and it made perfect sense too, although it was a choice that had been made in 1911 and we had pretty much stuck with it until then."
  • "The manuscript forms a coherent whole as much from the codicological as from the paleographic and stylistic point of view; the whole being written in the same hand and illustrated by the same artist, with the exception of the notes on the succession of abbots at Cluny from Hugues IV, 1199, to the election of Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, in 1528, copied by XV and XVI C. hands."
  • "But, unhappily, we have to depend for our chief data on what Casley, the "dry as dust" pay excellence of librarians could tell us, and though his knowledge of the age of MSS. was admirable, he was remarkably uncommunicative regarding their pedigree, meagre in his descriptions, and apparently insensible to paleographic beauty."
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