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What does codicology mean?

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Noun
  1. the study of codices (early handwritten books)
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A fairly brief introduction provides a basic description of the manuscript, concentrating on its codicology and production.
Hebrew handwritten books may indeed serve as a useful means for devising a comparative codicology and paleography.
This seminar provides students with a firm foundation in the discipline of codicology and introduces them to the cultural history of the medieval book.
For the Medieval Studies M.A. students can take the class on How to Describe a Medieval Manuscript, which gives an introduction to transcription and codicology.
Palaeography is the study of historical handwritten scripts, and codicology the related study of other physical aspects of manuscript codexes.
A sampling of topics turns up birth and death statements, colophon, letterforms or allographs, primitive codicology and palaeography, quire, scribal etiquette, and vignette.

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