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The palaeographer must know, first, the language of the text ( that is, a 21st-century English or French speaker must become expert in the relevant earlier forms of these languages ); and second, the historical usages of various styles of handwriting, common writing customs, and scribal / notarial abbreviations.
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palaeographer and must
An important goal may be to assign the text a date and a place of origin: this is why the palaeographer must take into account the style and formation of the manuscript and the handwriting used in it.
palaeographer and first
He was a good palaeographer and had a thorough knowledge of archives and manuscripts ; and he soon won a first place among scholars of the history of medieval France.
Zibaldone were in cursive scripts ( first chancery minuscule and later mercantile minuscule ) and contained what Armando Petrucci, the renowned palaeographer, describes as " an astonishing variety of poetic and prose texts.
It was also called Langobarda, Longobarda, Longobardisca ( signifying its origins with the Lombards ), or sometimes Gothica ; it was first called Beneventan by palaeographer E. A. Lowe.
palaeographer and text
Knowledge of individual letter-forms, ligatures, punctuation, and abbreviations enables the palaeographer to read and understand the text.
The lower text of the palimpsest was deciphered by biblical scholar and palaeographer Tischendorf in 1840 – 1843, and was edited by him in 1843 – 1845.
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palaeographer and second
He was a good palaeographer, and excelled in textual criticism, in examination of authorship, and other such matters, while his vast erudition and retentive memory made him second to none in interpretation and exposition.
palaeographer and .
His grandsons include the noted palaeographer T. C. Skeat and the stained glass painter Francis Skeat.
The Principal Librarian, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, the palaeographer, was also the Secretary to the Trustees, and hence in a strong position to get his own way.
Having proved himself an able palaeographer, he was sent out by the British government under Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston to inspect the libraries in the monasteries of the Levant in 1857.
must and know
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.
And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.
You must know what gets into people, even such as Red and Handley, before you can tell what comes out of them.
But we must know if this is in accordance with your customs, and must have your agreement they will not misuse the power we put in their hands, to our hurt ''.
Stone gives an example of this: when computing the roots of a quadratic equation the computor must know how to take a square root.
This means that the programmer must know a " language " that is effective relative to the target computing agent ( computer / computor ).
A popular, but probably apocryphal, story is that once when an opponent laid a cigar on the table, he complained to the tournament arbiters, " He is threatening to smoke, and as an old player you must know that the threat is stronger than the execution.
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