Paleography

Here are entered works on variations in the style of writing in the past and especially with ancient and medieval handwriting.

General and comparative works on the Semitic alphabet and its ancient and modern derivatives, or with similar series of characters employed to represent the sounds of a language, are entered under Alphabet.

Works on the process or result of recording language in the form of conventionalized visible marks or graphic signs on a surface are entered under Writing. Works on the writing of a particular language are entered under the name of the language with subdivisions Alphabet and Writing, e.g. Greek language -- Alphabet; Egyptian language -- Writing. Works on systems of writing used by several peoples are entered under Writing, followed by the name of the system, e.g. Writing, Arabic.

Works on written languages as a form of communication or discourse are entered under Written communication.

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• Writing
• Auxiliary sciences of history

• Diplomatics
• Manuscripts
• Illumination of books and manuscripts

• Copyists
• Hieroglyphics
• Inscriptions
• Manuscripts (Papyri)
• Paleography, Musical
• Signatures (Writing)

• Handwriting

• Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (multiple editions, with notes and commentary), by Herman Melville (HTML at Kansas)

• The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, by Unicode Consortium (HTML at unicode.org)

• A, Apple Pie, by Kate Greenaway (page images and HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Absurd ABC (London and New York: John Lane, c1874), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Comic Animals and their Adventures; With Alphabet and Rhymes (ca. 1880), illust. by George H. Thompson and Louis Wain (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Footsteps on the Road to Learning: or, The Alphabet in Rhyme (New Haven: S. Babcock, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)

• Baseball A B C (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1885) (page images at lov.gov)

• Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1894), by Daniel T. Ames (page images at iampeth.com)
• Collection of Penmanship (1921), by C. C. Canan (page images at iampeth.com)
• La Operina (in Italian, with English translation and commentary), by Ludovico degli Arrighi, ed. by Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem (zipped PDF at operina.com)
• The New Zanerian Alphabets: An Instructor in Roundhand, Engrossing, Designing, Etc. (Columbus, OH: Zaner and Bloser, c1900), by C. P. Zaner (page images at iampeth.com)
• Studies in Pen Art (1914), by William Edward Dennis (page images at iampeth.com)

• Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (ca. 1879), by Ella Cheever Thayer (Gutenberg text)

• A Compendium of Aljamiado Literature (New York; Paris: Protat, 1929), ed. by A. R. Nykl (page images in Austria)
• Discursos Leidos Ante la Real Academia Española en la Recepcion Pública (in Spanish; Madrid: Impr. de la Compañia de Impresores y Libreros, 1878), by Eduardo Saavedra, contrib. by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Primer in Grantha Characters (St. Peter, MN: James H. Nye, 1983), by K. Venugopalan (page images at Chicago)

• Se-quo-yah, the American Cadmus and Modern Moses (Philadelphia: Office of the Indian Rights Association, 1885), by Geo. E. Foster (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Primer in Oriya Characters (1985), by P. C. Mishra (page images at Chicago)

• A Primer in Grantha Characters (St. Peter, MN: James H. Nye, 1983), by K. Venugopalan (page images at Chicago)

• A Primer in Telugu Characters (New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1991), by Edward C. Hill (page images at Chicago)

• Inscriptions from the Athenian Agora (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1966), by Benjamin Dean Meritt, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Stephen V. Tracy (HTML at UC Press)

• Découvertes Épigraphiques et Archéologiques Faites en Tunisie (Région de Dougga) (in French; Lille: Impr. L. Danel, 1895), by Louis Benjamin Charles Carton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• On These Walls: Inscriptions and Quotations in the Buildings of the Library of Congress, by John Young Cole (illustrated HTML at loc.gov)

• Epitaphs for Country Churchyards, by Augustus J. C. Hare (illustrated HTML at Tripod)

• Curious Epitaphs (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1899), ed. by William Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Egyptian Stelae in Field Museum of Natural History, by Thomas George Allen (page images at Chicago)
• Memphis I, by W. M. Flinders Petrie, contrib. by J. H. Walker (PDF at ETANA)
• The Pyramid Texts (translation volume only), ed. by Samuel A. B. Mercer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Die Gottgeweihten Jungfrauen in den Ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche (in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1892), by Josef Wilpert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik (3 volumes, in German; 1902-1909), by Mark Lidzbarski
  • all 3 volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • first volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • second volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• Coffee in the Gourd (1923), ed. by J. Frank Dobie (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Lenâpe and Their Legends: With the Complete Text and Symbols of the Walum Olum, a New Translation, and an Inquiry Into Its Authenticity (Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1885), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at canadiana.org)

• Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr. Edward T. Newell, by Hans Henning van der Osten (page images at Chicago)

• Sigillographie de l'Empire Byzantin (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1884), by Gustave Léon Schlumberger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Numismata Cromwelliana: or, The Medallic History of Oliver Cromwell, Illustrated by His Coins, Medals and Seals (London: John Russell Smith, 1877), by Henry William Henfrey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google

• Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Leslie S. B. MacCoull (HTML at UC Press)

• The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden, ed. by F. Ll. Griffith and Herbert Thompson
  • volume I: PDF at ETANA
  • volume II: PDF at ETANA
  • volume III: PDF at ETANA
  • translation and introductory matter only: HTML at sacred-texts.com
• Gizeh and Rifeh, by W. M. Flinders Petrie, contrib. by Herbert Thompson and Walter Ewing Crum (PDF at ETANA)
• Stories of the High Priests of Memphis: The Sethon of Herodotus and The Demotic Tales of Khamuas, by F. Ll. Griffith (PDF files at ETANA)

• Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Work and His World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Leslie S. B. MacCoull (HTML at UC Press)

• Griechische Papyrus (2 volumes in 1, in German, each with slightly different full title; Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1912-1920), by Friedrich Preisigke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Work of the Benedictines of Solesmes in the Plainsong Revival (London: Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 1899), by H. B. Briggs (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• L'Archiviste François: ou, Méthode Sûre pour Apprendre à Arranger les Archives, et Déchiffrer les Anciennes Ecritures (second edition, in French; Paris: Le Clerc, 1775), by M. Batteney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bay City Charter, Rules of Common Council & Ordinances, by Bay City (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

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