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In Defence of Arabic Palaeography

open access: yesJournal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2023
Abstract Museum Cuficum Borgianum (Rome 1782) is one of Jacob Georg Christian Adler’s works which traditionally mark the birth of Arabic palaeography. Almost a century ago the Russian Arabist Ignatij Kratchovsky considered Arabic palaeography an indispensable branch of knowledge that needed to be acquired.
Arianna D'Ottone
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Hieroglyphic Palaeography

2020
Hieroglyphic palaeography has never been systematically studied until very recently. The earlier works considered the hieroglyphic sign from the perspective of the history of art. In the 1970s, new perspectives emerged thanks to H. G. Fischer, who developed an original approach through which the sign is coupled with cultural facts.
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Demotic Palaeography

2020
This chapter covers all aspects of Demotic palaeography. It deals with its research history and names its most important tools. Palaeographic methodology and issues of sign definition are discussed from a Demotic point of view. The problems of classifying Demotic scribal hands and assigning them to chronologically and topographically defined ...
Joachim Quack   +3 more
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Palaeography. Introduction

open access: yes, 2015
A general introduction to the palaeography, its history and methodology.
BIANCONI, DANIELE
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Digital palaeography: What is digital about it?

open access: yesDigital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2017
Compared to the epistemic traditions digital palaeography builds on, how is it transformative? In this article I will outline the emergent meanings and possible research directions of digital palaeography by reflecting on the past 15 years of approaches ...
Arianna Ciula
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Image analysis for palaeography inspection

Second International Conference on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL'06), 2006
This paper presents our first contribution to the discrimination of the medieval manuscript texts in order to assist palaeographers to date the ancient manuscripts. Our method is based on spatial grey-level dependence (SGLD) which measures the join probability between grey level values of pixels for each displacement.
Ikram Moalla   +3 more
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THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PALAEOGRAPHY

Journal of Documentation, 1950
PALAEOGRAPHY as a discipline in itself is the choice of a few, but as a hand‐maiden to Clio is pursued by many whose real object is the favour of her mistress. As an ancillary study, the lore of which is mainly carried in the learned heads of its protagonists, its bibliography has received somewhat sporadic treatment and many of the most useful ...
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