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- noun Plural form of
palaeographer .
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The palaeographers date the style of lettering to around 50 AD.
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Dr. Ingleby, accomplished palaeographers, keen-eyed, remorseless investigators, learned doctors though you be, you cannot make men who have common sense believe this.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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On this point Dr. Ingleby says, succinctly and decidedly, "The primal evidence of the forgery lies in the ink writing, and in that alone"; [S] but he expressly bases this dictum upon the decisions of the professed palaeographers of the British Museum and the Record Office.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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Under ordinary circumstances, when palaeographers like Sir Frederic Madden,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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I have confided the difficulties that I experienced in writing the history of the Penguins to several learned archaeologists and palaeographers both of my own and foreign countries.
Penguin Island 1909
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Among the oldest manuscripts of the library, in fact the oldest, is a hitherto unnoticed fragment of great significance not only to palaeographers, but to all students of the classics.
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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Shakespeare would be rightly credited with telling J. Greene that he disliked the enclosure; but palaeographers only recognise the reading
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Manuscripts entirely composed of leaves of purple vellum are of the greatest rarity, and many are described by palaeographers as purple-stained when they are only partially so.
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Augiensis (an uncial MS. of the Greek text of the New Testament, with the Vulgate version in parallel columns) is referred by palaeographers to the ninth century [96].
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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Reading the past: What palaeographers have done for us
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