“No direct evidence reveals either its date or place of origin, which can only be suggested on grounds of style, iconography, and paleography.”

“Hebrew handwritten books may indeed serve as a useful means for devising a comparative codicology and paleography.”

“Scholars and scoundrels, judges and jackasses have fiddled with its diplomatics, paleography, translation, interpretation, and application.”

“The quarry's paleogeography was generally thought to have been in a lacustrine environment with associated meandering streams.”

“The science of paleogeography has improved immeasurably over the last few decades.”

“However, the interrelationship between tectonic activity, global sea level change, and the change of paleogeography played a significant role.”

“One is astonished that the scientist paleographer of Leiden did not dare to engage further in so good a direction.”

“Ordained in 1879, he became a scholar, a paleographer, and prefect of the Vatican library.”

“These are of so remarkable a type as to have puzzled every philologist and paleographer who has attempted their decipherment.”