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Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. Paleography is the study of ancient methods of writing, most properly writing on parchment or paper or equivalent material, such as wooden tablets, leaves, canvas, or any other material on which one can write with a pen, reed, or paintbrush.Paleography investigates the history of the characters used to represent speech, traces the changes from age to age in thoseof the same language, teaches the art or science of deciphering documents, and determines their date and place of origin from the style of writing. Paleography is fundamentally an art, with some scientific props.In fact, Paleography was not recognized as a science until the publication in 1681 of the De Re Diplomatica of Jean Mabillon (1632-1707), who gave directions in this work for distinguishing, by the writing itself, between the genuine documents of the Middle Ages and the forgeries that were current in his time.The terminology of Paleography was used for the first time in 1703 by Bernard de Mountfaucon, a Benedictine monk,when he published a book entitled Paleographia Graeca, sive de ortu et progressu litterarum.Etymologically, this word is composed of two Greek terms παλάια (ancient), and γραφή (written). Consequently we translate: science that studies ancient writings .By the definition given above Paleography should include the study of writings of every sort, of all times and all peoples, regardless of the material which received them. However, its scope has been greatly restricted. In the first place it is limited to the Greek and Latin languages, and in the second place Epigraphy and Diplomatics. Once mere branches of Paleography, have won for themselves the rank of independent sciences. The former treats of the very oldest written records of Greece and Rome, those, that is, cut in stone and metal, or scratched and painted upon wood or other hard substances. The latter deals with the charters, wills, deeds, grants, etc., of the centuries following the breaking up of the Roman empire. Several related disciplines are distinguished from Paleography based on the material on which the writing is found.

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