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Palaeography - tutorial on how to read handwriting...
April 2005 2005
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Palaeography: reading old handwriting, 1500 - 1800: A practical online tutorialPalaeography is the study of old handwriting.
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Palaeography - tutorial on how to read handwriting found in documents from 1500-1800.
April 2005 2005
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Indian Palaeography_, characterized by Max Müller as "indispensable to every student of Indian literature," and in 1880 issued for the Madras government his greatest work, the _Classified Index to the Sanskrit MSS. in the Palace at Tanjore_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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(Paris, 1708); see the lntroductions to Greek Palaeography of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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This was Father Steffens, Professor of Palaeography in Freiburg University, resident Catholic priest at Maloja in the summer, with whom he had many discussions, and whose real knowledge of the critical questions confronting Christian theology he used to contrast with the frequent ignorance and occasional rudeness of the English representatives of that science who came to the hotel.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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"Palaeography is not simply an arcane auxiliary science," says Professor Jeffrey Hamburger, chair of medieval studies at Harvard University.
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"Palaeography is not simply an arcane auxiliary science," says Professor Jeffrey Hamburger, chair of medieval studies at Harvard University.
The Guardian World News John Crace 2010
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Exp: Palaeography is the study of ancient writings.
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"Palaeography is not simply an arcane auxiliary science," says Professor Jeffrey Hamburger, chair of medieval studies at Harvard University.
The Guardian World News John Crace 2010
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