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- noun Alternative spelling of
paleographer .
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Examples
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The documentation started to emerge in 1995, when palaeographer Barbara Frale first found a trove of Clementine documents accidentally bound together with later papers.
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The documentation started to emerge in 1995, when palaeographer Barbara Frale first found a trove of Clementine documents accidentally bound together with later papers.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Both Anderson and Jensen (who proved to be something of a palaeographer) were much excited by this discovery, which promised to afford the key to these extraordinary phenomena.
Number 13 by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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(It turned out that he was nothing more nor less than the brother-in-law of Saniette, a discovery which filled all the ‘faithful’ with amazement: the manners of the old palaeographer were so humble that they had always supposed him to be of a class inferior, socially, to their own, and had never expected to learn that he came of a rich and relatively aristocratic family.)
Swann's Way 2003
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Signor Carlo Castellani, well known in the literary world as a palaeographer of great eminence, is laboring at the colossal task with an energy and a zeal that have already accomplished much, and is daily making sensible advances in the work.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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Léopold Delisle, the celebrated savant, palaeographer, and historian, for many years the head of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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And the palaeographer knows that any scratch or scribbling, any _probatio pennae_ or casual entry, may become important in tracing the wanderings of a manuscript.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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Both Anderson and Jensen (who proved to be something of a palaeographer) were much excited by this discovery, which promised to afford the key to these extraordinary phenomena.
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A palaeographer can help determine which is likely to be the most authentic.
The Guardian World News John Crace 2010
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A palaeographer can help determine which is likely to be the most authentic.
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