archaeography
Meanings
noun
- Descriptive aspects and practices of early antiquarianism, and later archaeology in general.
- An interdisciplinary field that studies various, mutually correlated aspects and properties of ancient manuscripts, early printed materials and other textual historical sources, thus preparing and producing scholarly descriptions and editions.
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Etymology
Formed as archae- + -o- + -graphy, after the Ancient Greek ἀρχαιογράφος (arkhaiográphos, “the writing of antiquities”).
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