paleography
11paleography — noun the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them) • Hypernyms: ↑archeology, ↑archaeology • Hyponyms: ↑epigraphy …
12paleog. — paleography. * * * …
13paleog. — paleography. * * * paleog., paleography …
14semantics — semanticist /si man teuh sist/, semantician /see man tish euhn/, n. /si man tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. Ling. a. the study of meaning. b. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form. 2.… …
15Palaeography — Palaeography, (British), or paleography (American) (from the Greek gr. παλαιός palaiós , old and gr. γράφειν graphein , to write ) is the study of ancient handwriting, and the practice of deciphering and reading historical manuscripts. [… …
16classical scholarship — Introduction the study, in all its aspects, of ancient Greece (ancient Greek civilization) and Rome (ancient Rome). In continental Europe the field is known as “classical philology,” but the use, in some circles, of “philology” to denote… …
17Barbara Frale — (born on 24 February 1970) is an Italian paleographer at the Vatican Secret Archives. Frale has written books about the Templars and she has a special interest in the history of the Shroud of Turin. In September 2001, she found an authentic copy… …
18calligraphy — calligrapher, calligraphist, n. calligraphic /kal i graf ik/, calligraphical, adj. calligraphically, adv. /keuh lig reuh fee/, n. 1. fancy penmanship, esp. highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the… …
19historiography — historiographic /hi stawr ee euh graf ik, stohr /, historiographical, adj. historiographically, adv. /hi stawr ee og reuh fee, stohr /, n., pl. historiographies. 1. the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively. 2 …
20BIRNBAUM, SOLOMON ASHER — (1891–1989), Yiddish philologist and Hebrew paleographer. Birnbaum was born in Vienna, the son of nathan birnbaum , and is the father of Jacob Birnbaum, a key initiator of the U.S. Soviet Jewry Movement. After World War I service, he specialized… …
