Examples of “paleography” in a Sentence

noun The study of old or ancient forms of handwriting.

• She specializes in the paleography of medieval church records.
• Reading a paleography textbook helped him decode the faded manuscript.
• Paleography can date a document by the shape of its letters.

noun Old or ancient scripts and styles of writing themselves, such as uncial or scriptio continua.

• The exhibit displayed examples of early Roman paleography on stone tablets.
• Scholars compared two regional paleographies from the same century.
• Papyrus scrolls preserve some of the earliest known Greek paleography.