archaeography
Pronunciation: /ɑːkiːˈɒɡɹəfɪ/
The English word “archaeography” has 2 meanings listed here.
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.
Etymology
Formed as archae- + -o- + -graphy, after the Ancient Greek ἀρχαιογράφος (arkhaiográphos, “the writing of antiquities”).
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