Paleography
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.
Here are entered works on variations in the style of writing in the past and especially with ancient and medieval handwriting.
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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- Cuneiform writing
- Hieroglyphics
- Inscriptions
- Ostraka
- Paleography, English
- Paleography, German
- Paleography, Greek
- Paleography, Italian
- Paleography, Latin
- Paleography, Musical
- Paleography, Persian
- Runes
- Signatures (Writing)
- Handwriting
- Palaeography
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Universal Palaeography: or, Fac-Similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by M. Champollion-Figeac, Aimé-Louis Champollion-Figeac, Jean-François Champollion, and J. B. Silvestre, ed. by Frederic Madden (page images at HathiTrust)- Clavis Diplomatica, Specimina Veterum Scripturarum Tradens, Alphabeta Nimirum Varia, Medii Aevi Compendia Scribendi, Notariorum Veterum Signa Perplura, cet. Singula Tabulis Aeneis Expressa (in Latin; Hanover, Germany: B. N. Foerster and sons, 1754), by Daniel Eberhard Baring, ed. by Eberhard Johann Baring, contrib. by Jean Mabillon, Burkhard Gotthelf Struve, Johann Wilhelm von Goebel, Daniel von Papenbroeck, Johann Nikolaus Hertuis, Thomas Ruddiman, Johann Gottlieb Krause, and Johann Wilhelm Waldschmidt
- Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville
- Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (with annotations), by Herman Melville (HTML at slate.com)
- Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions (second edition, revised; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; et al., 1908), by A. H. Sayce (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- La Correspondance d'Aménophis III et d'Aménophis IV: Lettres Babyloniennes Trouvées à El-Amarna (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1899), trans. by J. Halévy, contrib. by J. Perruchon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Tell Amarna Tablets (second edition; London: Pub. for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by A.P. Watt, 1894), trans. by C. R. Conder (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literary and Scholastic Texts of the First Millennium B.C. (v2 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c2005), ed. by Ira Spar and W. G. Lambert (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Private Archive Texts from the First Millennium B.C. (v3 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c2000), ed. by Ira Spar and Eva Von Dassow, contrib. by J. N. Postgate and Linda Bregstein (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C. (v1 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c1988), ed. by Ira Spar (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained; With an Account of the Egyptian Priests, Their Classes, Initiation, and Sacrifices (in Arabic and English; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1806), by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Waḥshīyah, trans. by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall
- Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Kathryn Piquette and Ruth Whitehouse (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
- Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets (Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, c2020), ed. by Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele
- The Beginnings of Writing (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Walter James Hoffman, contrib. by Frederick Starr
- An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews, and of the Original State of the Text of the Hebrew Bible (3 parts in 4 inconsistently numbered volumes; London: Whittaker and Co., 1835-1856), by Charles William Wall
- Part the first: multiple formats at archive.org
- Part the second; volume 2 (1st volume of this part): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part the second; volume 3 (2nd volume of this part): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part the third (only volume 1 of this part published): multiple formats at Google
- Parts 1 and 2 (3 volumes): page images at HathiTrust
- The Story of the Alphabet (London: G. Newnes, Ltd., 1900), by Edward Clodd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Story of the Alphabet (Baltimore: N. T. A. Munder and Co., c1921), by Otto F. Ege
- Universal Palaeography: or, Fac-Similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by M. Champollion-Figeac, Aimé-Louis Champollion-Figeac, Jean-François Champollion, and J. B. Silvestre, ed. by Frederic Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Melanie McMahon (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Melanie McMahon (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)
- Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)
- Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, c2024), by Philippa M. Steele (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)
- Remember the Hand: Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023), by Catherine Brown (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Materialien zur Älteren Geschichte Armeniens und Mesopotamiens; Mit Einem Beitrage, Arabische Inschriften aus Armenien und Diyarbekr (in German; Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1907), by Ferdinand Friedrich Carl Lehmann-Haupt, contrib. by Max van Berchem
- The Blue Buckle (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1914), by William Hamilton Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
- Epigraphia Indica (partial serial archives)
- The Antiquities of Bidar (Kolkata: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1917), by Ghulam Yazdani
- Third century Iran: Sapor and Kartir (Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1953), by Martin Sprengling (page images at HathiTrust)
- Materialien zur Älteren Geschichte Armeniens und Mesopotamiens; Mit Einem Beitrage, Arabische Inschriften aus Armenien und Diyarbekr (in German; Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1907), by Ferdinand Friedrich Carl Lehmann-Haupt, contrib. by Max van Berchem
- Mission Dans les Régions Désertiques de la Syrie Moyenne (in French; Imp. Nationale, 1903), by René Dussaud and Frédéric Macler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- Inventaire Descriptif Des Monuments Čams De L'Annam (2 volumes of texts and of plates, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1909-1918), by Henri Parmentier
- Christian Epigraphy: An Elementary Treatise, with a Collection of Ancient Christian Inscriptions, Mainly of Roman Origin (Cambridge, UK: At the University press, 1912), by Orazio Marucchi, trans. by J. Armine Willis
- Epitaphs for Country Churchyards, by Augustus J. C. Hare (illustrated HTML at Tripod)
- Étude sur la Poésie Funéraire Romaine d'Après les Inscriptions (in French; Paris: Hachette, 1922), by Édouard Galletier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Christian Epigraphy: An Elementary Treatise, with a Collection of Ancient Christian Inscriptions, Mainly of Roman Origin (Cambridge, UK: At the University press, 1912), by Orazio Marucchi, trans. by J. Armine Willis
- Hieratic Ostraka and Papyri Found by J. E. Quibell in the Ramesseum, 1895-6 (Egyptian Research Account extra volume; London: B. Quaritch, 1898), ed. by Wilhelm Spiegelberg, contrib. by James Edward Quibell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Layamon (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Elizabeth J. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Deutsche Buchstabenschrift: Ihre Entstehung und Entwickelung, ihre Zweckmaessigkeit und Vœlkische Bedeutung (in German; Leipzig: A. Hasert u.C., 1910), by Adolf Reinecke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Zweite Subscription des Clarkianus 39 (in German; Lemgo: F. L. Wagener, 1890), by Albrecht Jordan
- Lexicon Abbreviaturarum Quae in Lapidibus, Codicibus et Chartis Praesertim Medii-Aevi Occurrunt; Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine ed Italiane, Usate Nelle Carte e Codici Specialmente nel Medio-Evo (in Italian and Latin; Milan: U. Hoepli, 1899), by Adriano Cappelli (page images at HathiTrust)
- Contributions to the Palaeography of Latin Inscriptions (UC publications in classical archaeology v3 #3; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957), by Joyce S. Gordon and Arthur E. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le Abbreviature Nella Paleografia Latina del Medio Evo (in Italian; Florence: Successori Le Monnier, 1891), by Cesare Paoli
- The Vatican Livy and the Script of Tours (Extract from The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 1917), by Edward Kennard Rand and George Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Latin Zenei Paleográfia és a Pray-Kódex Zenei Hangjelzései (in Hungarian; Budapest: Kiadja a Budavári Tudományos Társaság, 1922), by Isoz Kálmán (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Lexicon Abbreviaturarum Quae in Lapidibus, Codicibus et Chartis Praesertim Medii-Aevi Occurrunt; Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine ed Italiane, Usate Nelle Carte e Codici Specialmente nel Medio-Evo (in Italian and Latin; Milan: U. Hoepli, 1899), by Adriano Cappelli (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Persian Miscellanies: An Essay to Facilitate the Reading of Persian Manuscripts; With Engraved Specimens, Philological Observations, and Notes Critical and Historical (London: Printed for R. White, 1795), by William Ouseley
- Les Tamgas des Kirghizes (Kazaks) (offprint from "Revue du monde musulman", in French; 1921), by Joseph Castagné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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