Mr Johnson's great-grandfather Elias Avery Lowe, a Russian-American palaeographer, never practised Judaism and seemed more interested in Latin texts, including Christian ones, than in Hebrew ones.
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Charles Schoebel (1813–1888) was a 19th-century French ethnologist, palaeographer and linguist.
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Sir Frederic Madden KH (16 February 1801 – 8 March 1873) was an English palaeographer.
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Michel François (31 August 1906 – 11 July 1981) was a French archivist, palaeographer and historian.
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Robert Marichal, (20 March 1904 – 23 October 1999) was a 20th-century French palaeographer and archivist.
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Pasquale Orsini (born 1970) is an Italian palaeographer, librarian, and Professor from Università di Catania-Siracusa.
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Léon Lacabane (21 November 1798 – 24 December 1884) was a 19th-century French historian, librarian and palaeographer.
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Ernest Cadman Colwell (19 January 1901 – 24 September 1974) was an American biblical scholar, textual critic and palaeographer.
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Gilbert Ouy (1 March 1924, Paris – 26 June 2011, Chambéry, aged 87) was a French historian, palaeographer and librarian.
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Annaclara Cataldi Palau is an Italian palaeographer specialising in Greek mediaeval and renaissance palaeography and history of the book.
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Thomas Astle Thomas Astle FRS FRSE FSA (22 December 1735 – 1 December 1803) was an English antiquary and palaeographer.
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Guglielmo Cavallo (born 18 August 1938 in Carovigno) is an Italian Greek palaeographer and professor from the Sapienza University of Rome.
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István Hajnal István Hajnal (3 July 1892 – 16 June 1956) was a Hungarian social historian and palaeographer. Hajnal has been characterised as "perhaps the most prominent Hungarian palaeographer of [the twentieth] century." He had wide-ranging interests in medieval and modern history, including the history of technology, the history of communication, and the relation of history to sociology.
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Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer (11 December 1753 – 21 November 1823), was a German-Danish philologist, theologian, librarian, bibliophile, palaeographer, diplomat, and Bible translator.
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The manuscript was examined by Giuseppe Bianchini, Italian palaeographer, and Andreas Birch, Danish palaeographer. The manuscript is sporadically cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3).The Greek New Testament, ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, United Bible Societies, 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), p. XXIX.
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Christian Frederick Matthaei (4 March 1744, in Mücheln – 26 September 1811), a Thuringian, palaeographer, classical philologist, professor first at Wittenberg and then at Moscow.
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Gregorios N. Bernardakis (, translit. Grigorios N. Vernardakis, Neolatin Gregorius N. Bernardakis, b. Mytilene 1848, d. 1925) was a Greek philologist, palaeographer, and university professor.
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Dorothea Waley Singer with her husband in Kilmarth Dorothea Waley Singer, b. Cohen (1882–1964) was a British palaeographer, historian of science, medical historian and philanthropist.
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Dommartin-lès-Remiremont is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. The archivist-palaeographer Michel François (1906–1981) was born in Dommartin.
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Fons is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. The 19th- century French historian, librarian and palaeographer Léon Lacabane (1798–1884) was born in Fons.
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Ermenegildo Pistelli (February 18, 1862Inscription on a plaque (visible on Commons) placed at his birthplace in Camaiore. – January 14, 1927) was an Italian papyrologist, palaeographer, philologist and presbyter.
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Qiu Xigui (; born 13July 1935) is a Chinese historian, palaeographer, and professor of Fudan University. His book Chinese Writing is considered the "single most influential study of Chinese palaeography".
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Beaucourt is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne- Franche-Comté in northeastern France. The archivist and palaeographer Élie Berger (1850–1925) was born in Beaucourt.
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Cisai-Saint-Aubin is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. The French priest and palaeographer Robert Devreesse (1894–1978) was born in Cisai-Saint-Aubin.
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Marc Smith (born 1963), French palaeographer, was born in Newcastle. Freddy Shepherd, former chairman of Newcastle United F.C. for ten years, lived in Newcastle upon Tyne until his death in 2017.
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Jean Mallon (20 June 1904, in Le Havre – 16 November 1982L. Gilissen, « "De l'Écriture". In memoriam Jean Mallon (m. 16.11.1982) », Scriptorium, 37/1 (1983), 287-290) was a French palaeographer, specialist of Latin palaeography.
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A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, he obtained his archivist-palaeographer degree in 1926. He then was a curator at the Archives nationales.Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, 88 (1927), p. 363 (online).
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Victor Emil Gardthausen (26 August 1843 – 27 December 1925) was a German ancient historian, palaeographer, librarian, and Professor from Leipzig University. He was author and co-author of some books; editor of ancient texts.
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Wallace Martin Lindsay FBA (12 February 1858 - 21 February 1937) was a classical scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a palaeographer. He was Professor of Humanity at University of St Andrews.
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Albinia Catherine de la Mare, (2 June 1932 – 19 December 2001), known in print as A.C. de la Mare and informally as “Tilly”, was an English librarian and palaeographer who specialised in Italian Renaissance manuscripts.
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Mandres-les-Roses is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The palaeographer and archivist Robert Marichal (1904–1999) was born in Mandres-les-Roses.
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Mary Teresa Josephine Webber, is a British palaeographer, medievalist, and academic. She has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1997 and Professor of Palaeography at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge since 2018.
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Leonard Hug, Hug's introduction to the New Testament, trans. by D. Fosdick, Andover 1836, p. 174 Constantin von Tischendorf, palaeographer and textual critic, and Caspar René Gregory, textual critic, dated the manuscript to the 9th century.
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Palaeography can be an essential skill for historians and philologists, as it tackles two main difficulties. First, since the style of a single alphabet in each given language has evolved constantly, it is necessary to know how to decipher its individual characters as they existed in various eras. Second, scribes often used many abbreviations, usually so as to write more quickly and sometimes to save space, so the specialist-palaeographer must know how to interpret them. Knowledge of individual letter-forms, ligatures, punctuation, and abbreviations enables the palaeographer to read and understand the text.
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Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (22 February 1683 – 6 January 1734) was a German scholar, bibliophile, book-collector, traveller, palaeographer, and consul in Frankfurt am Main who is best known today for his published travelogues.
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László Mezey (5 December 1918 – 14 April 1984) was a Hungarian medievalist and palaeographer. Mezey was a student of the paleographer István Hajnal, completing the appendix on charter copies of Hajnal's monograph on the medieval universities and script development.
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Quincy-sous-Sénart is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. The palaeographer and archivist Robert Marichal (1904–1999) died in Quincy-sous-Sénart. Inhabitants of Quincy-sous-Sénart are known as Quincéens.
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Franz Anton Knittel (April 3, 1721 - December 10, 1792) was a German, Lutheran orthodox theologian, priest, and palaeographer. He examined palimpsests' text of the Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis and deciphered text of Codex Carolinus. He was the author of many works.
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The lower text of the palimpsest was deciphered by biblical scholar and palaeographer Constantin von Tischendorf in 1840–1843, and was edited by him in 1843–1845. Currently it is housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Grec 9) in Paris.
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Having graduated as an archivist-palaeographer in 1901 with a thesis devoted to the House of ArmagnacBase des thèses de l'École des Chartes. then working as a member of the École française de Rome (1901–1903), Charles Samaran became an archivist at the Archives nationales.Jean Favier, [Obituary] Charles Samaran, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes, 141/2 (1983), p. 414. In 1908 he published Les diplômes originaux des Mérovingiens, "an extraordinary achievement by a young palaeographer who would remain until his old age an infallible decipherer of difficult texts",Jean Favier, « [Nécrologie] Charles Samaran », Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes, 141/2 (1983), p. 415.
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Louis Lambillotte (born La Hamaide, (Hainaut, Belgium), 27 March 1796; died Paris, 27 February 1855) was a Belgian Jesuit, composer and palaeographer of Church music, associated with the restoration of Gregorian music, which he inaugurated and promoted by his scientific researches and publications.
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Solomon Asher Birnbaum, also Salomo Birnbaum ( Shlomo Barenboym, December 24, 1891 in Vienna – December 28, 1989 in Toronto) was a Yiddish linguist and Hebrew palaeographer."Birnbaum, Salomo (Solomon Asher Birnbaum)" (2002). In: Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft, 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert.
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Karl Wessely (Carl Wessely; 27 June 1860, Vienna – 21 November 1931) was an Austrian palaeographer and papyrus scholar. He examined manuscripts housed at the Austrian National Library (e.g. Papyrus 3, Uncial 058, 059, 0101, 0237) and in other important European libraries (Papyrus 5).
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South, Historia, p. 14 The handwriting is early Gothic, showing continental influences typical of the contemporary Anglo-Norman script. Palaeographer Michael Gullick has identified the scribe as Symeon of Durham (fl. 1093–1129), an identification accepted by the Historia's recent editor Ted Johnson South.
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Raymond Lebègue (16 August 1895 – 21 November 1984) was a 20th-century French literary historian. The son of palaeographer Henri Lebègue, he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1955. He cofounded the Revue d'histoire du théâtre with his friend Louis Jouvet.
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Sir E. M. Thompson in 1899. Photograph by Alexander Bassano. Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (4 May 1840 – 14 September 1929) was a British palaeographer and Principal Librarian and first Director of the British Museum.Sir E. Maunde Thompson, The British Museum Quarterly, Volume 4, Number 3, pages 94–96, December 1929.
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Wilhelm Friedrich Rinck (1793-1854) was a German Protestant priest (from 1814),D. Lepique, Statistik der evangelisch-protestantischen Kirchen und Schulen im Großherzogthum Baden (Heidelberg 1824), p. 115. biblical scholar and palaeographer. Rinck collated manuscripts housed at the Marcian Library – Minuscule 205, 205abs, 209, 460, 1923, 1924, 1925, Lectionary 34.
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The Berlin physician Moritz Litten (1845–1907) was his son-in-law. Ludwig Traube married Cora Marckwald, and they had 3 daughters and 2 sons. It was an impressing happening, when a son died from diphtheria the age of 5 years. Another son, Ludwig Traube (1861–1907), was a palaeographer.
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Rather than miniatures, zibaldone often incorporate the author's sketches. Zibaldone were in cursive scripts (first chancery minuscule and later mercantile minuscule) and contained what palaeographer Armando Petrucci describes as "an astonishing variety of poetic and prose texts."Petrucci, 187. Devotional, technical, documentary and literary texts appear side by side in no discernible order.
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An archivist palaeographer graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes, and the daughter of Ernest Laurain, Madeleine Laurain-Portemer was curator at the cabinet of manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1941 to 1964 and master of research at the CNRS from 1970 to 1982. She was a specialist of Mazarin.
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Constantine Simonides (1820–1890), was a palaeographer and dealer of icons, known as a man of extensive learning, with significant knowledge of manuscripts and miraculous calligraphy. He surpassed his contemporaries in literary ability. Some paleographers say that he was the most versatile forger of the nineteenth century. The charge of forgery is unsubstantiated.
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Thomas William Allen, (9 May 1862 – 30 Apr 1950) was an English classicist, scholar of Ancient Greek and palaeographer. He was a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1890 until his death sixty years later. He is best known for his editions of Homer for Oxford Classical Texts and work on Greek Palaeography.
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María Ugarte España (22 February 1914, Segovia, Spain – 4 March 2011, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) was a Spanish-Dominican journalist, writer, academician, historian and palaeographer. Ugarte was the first woman who worked as a journalist in the Dominican Republic, and also the first woman to become a member of the Dominican Academy of History.
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IX, 1986, p. 78. 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.Fernando De Lasala, Exercise of Latin Paleography (Gregorian University of Rome, 2006) p. 7.
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Albert Bruckner (13 July 1904, Basel – 10 December 1985, Finkenberg, aged 81) was a Swiss historian, palaeographer and medievalist. Albert Bruckner, the son of a pastor of the same name, studied history in Basel, Lausanne, Berlin, Florence and Münster. After his doctorate in Cologne in 1929, he was an assistant in Berlin. In 1931 he returned to Basel.
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Henri Lebègue (27 February 1856 – 19 October 1938) was a French palaeographer, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études. The French historian Ernest Lebègue (1862–1943), was his brother. Henri Lebègue was also the father of literary historian Raymond Lebègue and nephew of publisher and media owner Alphonse-Nicolas Lebègue (1814–1885) from Brussels.
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Marc Smith obtained his archivist palaeographer degree as major (valedictorian) of the 1988 class of the École Nationale des Chartes with a thesis entitled La France et sa civilisation vues par les Italiens au XVIe,Nomination en qualité d’archiviste paléographe par arrêté du 29 avril 1988 then started his career as curator at the Archives nationales (1988–1994).
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Matthias Martin Tischler (born March 18, 1968 in Münchberg, Bavaria) is a German palaeographer, philologist and historian, stemming from a multinational and -confessional family with Austrian, Bohemian, French and Hungarian origins. He is married to the Catalan philologist and linguist Eulàlia Vernet i Pons and lives with his family in L'Ametlla del Vallès, Barcelona and Münchberg, Bavaria.
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Sir Frederic George Kenyon (15 January 1863 – 23 August 1952) was a British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He held a series of posts at the British Museum from 1889 to 1931. He was also the president of the British Academy from 1917 to 1921. From 1918 to 1952 he was Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod.
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His father, Gustav Wilhelm Arndt was the District Judge. His brother, Wilhelm Arndt, became a noted historian and palaeographer. He studied at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar, under Alexander Michelis and Theodor Hagen. In 1876, he became a Professor of landscape painting there and, from 1879 to 1881, he served as Secretary of the Art School.
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According to Victor Gardthausen it was written in the 10th or 11th century. Kondakov dated it to the 12th or 13th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century. Of the history of the codex 1187 nothing is known until the year 1886, when it was seen by Victor Gardthausen, German palaeographer.
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Elias Avery Lowe (15 October 1879 - 8 August 1969), known in print as E. A. Lowe, was a Russian-American palaeographer at the University of Oxford and Princeton University. He was a lecturer, and then reader, at the University of Oxford from 1913 to 1936, and a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1936.
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Guido Bastianini (born September 10, 1945 in Florence), Italian papyrologist and palaeographer. Bastianini finished his papyrological studies in Florence 1970. He had participated in various archaeological missions in Egypt organized by the Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (March–April 1969, September–October 1972, April 1973), both on the excavation of Antinoe (September–October 1973, December 1974 - January 1975).
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Alexandre Teulet (January 29, 1807- March 23, 1866) was a French Palaeographer, archivist, and historian.Alexandre Teulet,General Catalog, National library of France His full name was Jean Baptiste Alexandre Théodore Teulet. His father was General Raymond Teulet. After graduating from the École Nationale des Chartes in 1832, he was appointed to National Archives of France where he spent his entire career.
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Uniformity of size is well attained, and a few strokes project, and these but slightly, above or below the line. Another type, well called by palaeographer Schubart the "severe" style, has a more angular appearance and not infrequently slopes to the right; though handsome, it has not the sumptuous appearance of the former.Cf. Wilhelm Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie, C.H. Beck, 1925, vol. i, pt.
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The upper text of the palimpsest contains weekday Gospel lessons; the lower text contains portions of the Gospel of Luke, deciphered by biblical scholar and palaeographer Tregelles in 1861. The lower text is of most interest to scholars. The manuscript came from Zakynthos, a Greek island, and has survived in a fragmentary condition. It was brought to England in 1821 and transferred to Cambridge University in 1985.
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A student of the École nationale des chartes, Massip obtained there her archivist palaeographer diploma in 1973 with a thesis entitled Les musiciens à Paris au milieu du XVIIe (1643–1661). Institutions et condition sociale.website of the École des chartes She also won first prizes at the conservatoire de Paris both in music history and musicology. She is also the holder of a State doctorate.
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Wertner questioned Karácsonyi's remarks in 1902, who also maintained his position. In 1924, palaeographer Emil Jakubovich published the last testament of Stephen, son of Miska I, while Imre Szentpétery founded and translated the deed of the foundation of the Almád Abbey in 1927. After that József Holub wrote his essay in 1937, which was the only publication on this topic until Gábor Nemes' work.
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Josiah Forshall, palaeographer, dated the manuscript to the 9th century (Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1834–1840). Scrivener stated that on the palaeographical ground it should be dated earlier, even to the 7th or 8th century, but liturgical books usually were written in an older letters than in other documents. Scrivener dated this manuscript to the 9th century. Gregory refers the manuscript even later, to the 10th century.
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According to Victor Gardthausen the manuscript was written in the 16th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 15th century. Of the history of the codex 1253 nothing is known until the year 1886, when it was seen by Victor Gardthausen, German palaeographer, who made first described the codex. C. R. Gregory on the basis of Gardthausen description added it to the list of the New Testament manuscripts.
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Borgolte was educated at the University of Münster, where he gained his doctorate in 1975. In 1981 he qualified as a professor at the University of Freiburg, where he was assistant to the palaeographer Johanne Authenrieth from 1975 onwards. in 1991 he was one of the first professors newly appointed to Humboldt-University after the Berlin Wall came down. He held the chair for Medieval History until 2018.
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Kenneth Willis Clark (1898–1979) was a professor at Duke University, Greek palaeographer; area of interest: Greek New Testament manuscripts, and author of numerous books. Clark catalogued the Greek New Testament manuscripts housed in the libraries of the United States and Canada (1937).T.C. Skeat, A descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. By K.W. Clark, „The Journal of Hellenic Studies”, Volume 59, Issue 1, 1939, p. 179.
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She obtained her archivist-palaeographer diploma in 1975 with a thesis devoted to Abbo of Fleury, whose Quæstiones grammaticales she edited and commented. After she was graduated with an Agrégation de Lettres Classiques, she joined the CNRS (1978) and was affected to the . Anita Guerreau-Jalabert is particularly specialist of kinship relations in the Middle Ages. She leads seminars at the École nationale des chartes and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
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Sulhamstead House, commonly known as the White House, was the manor house of Sulhamstead Abbots. It was built by Daniel May, son of the Basingstoke brewer, Charles May, in 1744, becoming home to his sister's descendants, the Thoyts family. The house was largely rebuilt in 1800 for William Thoyts, the High Sheriff of Berkshire. It was the childhood home of his great granddaughter, Berkshire historian and palaeographer, Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (1860–1949).
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Li Xueqin (, 28 March 1933 – 24 February 2019) was a Chinese historian, archaeologist, and palaeographer, who was widely considered the most important Chinese historian of his time. He served as Director of the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor and Director of the Institute of Sinology of Tsinghua University, Chairman of the Pre-Qin History Association of China, and Director of the Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project.
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In August 1781 Townley wrote to James Byres, the antiquary and dealer in Rome, that "Mr Zoffany is painting, in the Stile of his Florence tribune, a room in my house, wherein he introduces what Subjects he chuses in my collection. It will be a picture of extraordinary effect & truth..." (Kitto 2005). Engaged in discussion with him are three fellow connoisseurs, the palaeographer Charles Astle, Hon. Charles Francis Greville, F.R.S., and Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville.
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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. There is good evidence that Thompson, an efficient and authoritarian figure, intended to take control of the whole Museum, including the Natural History departments.Mitchell, P. Chalmers (1937) My fill of days. London. pp. 170ff.Sir John Evans to Lankester, Lankester family papers; reported in Lester, pp. 128–9.
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Emma Elizabeth Thoyts (1860-1949), aka Mrs. John Hauntenville Cope, was an English palaeographer, historian and genealogist. Thoyts was born in Bryanston Square, Marylebone in Middlesex on 8 July 1860, the eldest daughter Major William Richard Mortimer Thoyts of Sulhamstead House, Berkshire, and his wife, Anne Annabella Puleston. She was the great-granddaughter of William Thoyts, the High Sheriff of Berkshire, and grew up at Sulhamstead House where she developed an interest in history.
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She continued her graduate education at Columbia University and in 1936 went to the Institute of Art and Archaeology at Sorbonne. In 1937, she went to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where she studied for a year. Upon return to the United States, she taught in New York until 1940, when she became the assistant to the palaeographer, E.A. Lowe at Princeton University. At Princeton, she met her future husband, Antony Raubitschek.
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Ludolf Küster () (1670–1716) was a Westphalian scholar, philologist, textual critic, palaeographer, and editor of Greek ancient texts. Küster was born in Blomberg, Westphalia. He was friends with, and a correspondent of, Richard Bentley, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, who assisted him in the production of a hasty edition of the works of Aristophanes. Thomas de Quincey was later to say that Bentley's contributions—including epistles on The Clouds and Plutus—were "mangled" by Küster and incompetent printers.
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A student at the École nationale des chartes, Galland obtained his archivist-palaeographer diploma in 1987 with a thesis entitled Les archevêques de Lyon de la Bulle d'or aux Philippines. He was a member of the École française de Rome from 1992 to 1995. A curator at the Archives nationales, he was successively in charge of the ancient section, scientific director of the Paris site and director of public. He is also associate professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
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Ruth Dean was born in New York City on March 10th 1902. She attended Wellesley College, graduating with a B.A. in 1922. She subsequently attended Saint Hugh's College, Oxford, earning a B.A. in 1924, an M.A. in 1928, and a D.Phil in 1938. During her time at Oxford, Dean had the opportunity to work alongside eminent medievalists: she was research assistant to the notable palaeographer E. A. Lowe, and moreover studied for her doctorate under Mildred Pope.
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They had a large family of ten children, including Jane, the wife of William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford, and their heir, Mortimer George Thoyts, who was the grandfather of the palaeographer, historian and genealogist, Emma Elizabeth Thoyts. In 1795, William became High Sheriff of Berkshire. In 1800, he rebuilt the family home largely as it stands today, minus the famous portico. William died in November 1817 and was buried in the family vault beneath St Mary's Church, Sulhamstead Abbots.
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A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, Vaux de Foletier graduated as archivist-palaeographer in 1917 with a thesis about , master of the French artillery. In 1955, he was among the founders of the journal '. He was awarded several prizes by the Académie française in 1931, 1961, 1970 and 1981. dedicated him her book Les Tsiganes — une destinée européenne, the 218th title published in 1994 by the Éditions Gallimard in the series "Découvertes Gallimard, Histoire", .
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Former windmill, Le Boichet Prehistoric traces of human presence in Thury, determined by finds of flint remains, go back to the Neanderthals about 40,000 years BCE. Neolithic objects (ca. 6000–3000 BCE in the region) discovered by Mr Creusard, including a polished stone pestle that was used to crush grain, are held in the small museum inside the church's tower. Burgundian palaeographer reported the finding in 1862 of bronze objects (a ring, a hatchet and a key) from the Bronze Age (ca.
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He gained a licence to practice law before studying at the École nationale des chartes, where in 1903 he gained a diploma as a palaeographer-archivist. He was curator of the musée Calvet and its library from 1906 until 1949, when he became curator of the Palais des papes. Later he also became curator of art and antiquities of Vaucluse. Between 1909 and 1958, he published eleven works and studies on his work in the archives at the Palais des papes.
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Trained at the École des chartes and holder of a doctorate es literature, and an archivist/palaeographer, Norbert Dufourcq nonetheless devoted himself to music. An amateur organist (pupil of André Marchal), he is the holder of the organ of the Saint-Merri church in Paris from 1923 to his death. The Clicquot/Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ was restored by the company in a under the direction of its owner between 1946 and 1947. Many organ stops were added to the instrument.
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Carla Falluomini, professor at the University of Turin and currently at the University of Perugia, Gothic palaeographer; areas of interest: Longobard and Gothic languages and cultures. Falluomini gave a new collation for Gothic text of Codex Carolinus in 1999. The first collation of the codex was made by Franz Anton Knittel (1721–1792) in 1762,Knittel, Ulphilae versionem Gothicam nonnullorum capitum epistolae Pauli ad Romanos e litura MS. rescript Bibliothecae Guelferbytanae, cum variis monumentis ineditis eruit, commentatus est, detitque foras, Brunovici 1762 who made some errors.
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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. He discovered some valuable manuscripts, but the monks were too wise to part with their treasures. One valuable result of his travels was the detection of the forgery attempted by Constantine Simonides. He was the author of various catalogues, and under his direction that of the Bodleian, in more than 720 volumes, was completed.
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For Charles Singer's career, marriage to the wealthy palaeographer would prove a turning point. His first historic work, on Benjamin Marten, a precursor of Louis Pasteur, appeared in 1911. With the support of his wife Charles Singer became one the central figures of interwar history of science and medicine. In turn, by his side Dorothea Singer trained herself as a medical historian. Her first papers were co-authored with her husband, starting with a publication on the development of contagium vivum,Charles und Dorothea Singer (1913).
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Christopher Williams Sir John's leisure hours were largely spent in the acquisition of a large private library, and in 1898, influenced by the palaeographer John Gwenogvryn Evans, he acquired the Hengwrt–Peniarth collection of manuscripts. These were donated to the new National Library of Wales when it was built at Aberystwyth. In 1907 he was appointed the first President of the National Library, and two years later moved to Aberystwyth to live. In 1913 he became President of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University).
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A student of the École Nationale des Chartes, Gilbert Ouy obtained the archivist palaeographer diploma in 1946 with a thesis entitled Un commentateur des Sentences au XIVe siècle, Jean de Mirecourt. He was first a custodian in the manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, then, from 1967, master of research at the CNRSCentre national de la recherche scientifique, Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 125/2 (1967), (p. 551) Read online where he ended his career as research director. On 19 January 1985 he obtained the title of Doctor of Letters.
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According to William Hatch, palaeographer, the letters Β, Δ, Κ, Λ, Μ, Ξ, Π, Υ, Φ, Χ, Ψ, and Ω have forms which are characteristic for the late 10th or the early 11th century. The handwriting of this codex bears a striking general resemblance to that of three Gospel lectionaries of the 10th and 11th centuries: Lectionary 3, ℓ 296, and ℓ 1599. On the other hand, no such likeness exists between the codex and uncial manuscript of the New Testament which were written in the 9th century. The manuscript should be written about 1000.
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Richard William Hunt (11 April 1908 – 13 November 1979) was a scholar, grammarian, palaeographer, editor, and author of a number of books about medieval history. He began his career as a lecturer in palaeography at Liverpool University, and worked at Bush House during World War II. In 1945 he obtained the position of Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, and he relocated to Oxford, remaining in the position until 1975. On 11 December 1939 he married Edith Irene Joyce Twamley at Spondon. She died from complications of pregnancy on 7 December 1940.
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At the British Museum it was Sir Frederic Madden, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts, who persuaded the Trustees to purchase for 80 guineas (£84) the eighty-two pieces which he had been misled into believing was the entire hoard. Madden was a palaeographer, a scholar of early vernacular literature, but he was especially intrigued by these artifacts because he was a chess enthusiast. Madden immediately set about writing a monumental research paper about the collection, – one that remains informative and impressive today. At both museums the chessmen are an extremely popular exhibit for visitors.
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A student of the École Nationale des Chartes and the École du Louvre, he dedicated his archivist and palaeographer thesis to Jules Hardouin- Mansart (1962). After graduating from the École des chartes, he was appointed to the , then at the École française de Rome. As curator, he organized several exhibitions including (with and Colombe Samoyault-Verlet) Dix siècles de joaillerie française (Louvre, 1962), (with Michel Laclotte and Sylvie Béguin) L'École de Fontainebleau (Grand Palais, 1972–1973). In 1980, he succeeded André Chastel at the Renaissance Art History chair at the École pratique des hautes études.
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Early modern court hand alphabet, showing "ff" used as the equivalent of a capital F Mark Antony Lower in his Patronymica Brittanica (1860) called this spelling an affectation. He stated that it originated in "a foolish mistake concerning the ff of old manuscripts, which is no duplication, but simply a capital f." Later in the 19th century the palaeographer Edward Maunde Thompson wrote from the British Museum: > The English legal handwriting of the Middle Ages has no capital F. A double > f (ff) was used to represent the capital letter. In transcribing, I should > write F, not ff; e. g.
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Born Charlotte Offlow Fawcett in Oxford, Charlotte Johnson Wahl is the daughter of Frances (née Lowe) and Sir James Fawcett. She was the granddaughter of Americans Elias Avery Lowe, a palaeographer of Russian Jewish descent,Interview: Boris Johnson – my Jewish credentials , The Jewish Chronicle, Daniella Peled, April 2008 and Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, a translator. She read English at Oxford University, and was the first married female undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall. She interrupted her studies to go to the US with her husband Stanley Johnson whom she met at Oxford and married in Marylebone, London in 1963.
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CLA is a major work for the understanding of the history of writing during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The collection, representing the masterwork of Elias Avery Lowe during his activity at Princeton University, had its roots in Lowe's doctoral thesis about the oldest calendars from Monte Cassino (1908) under the direction of Ludwig Traube. R. A. B. (Roger Aubrey Baskerville) Mynors (1903–1989), professor of Latin at Oxford University and editor, coauthored the last volumes. The German palaeographer Bernhard Bischoff worked on CLA starting from 1933, and is responsible for many of the descriptions.
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Louis Finot Site of the original École française d'Extrême-Orient (later named Musee Louis Finot) in Hanoi, Vietnam, now the National Museum of Vietnamese History Louis Finot (1864 in Bar-sur-Aube - 1935 in Toulon) was a French archeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia. A former director of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, his contribution to the study of Khmer history, architecture and epigraphy is widely recognised. A bachelor of law and letters, Finot was admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes in 1886. He left it two years later with the title of palaeographer.
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Jules Gustave Flammermont (5 February 1852, in Chaumont-en-Vexin - 29 July 1899, in Lille) was a French historian, largely known for his writings on history of the 18th century. He studied at the École pratique des Hautes Études and École des Chartes in Paris, receiving his diploma as an archivist- palaeographer in 1878. He worked as a librarian and archivist in the town of Senlis, and afterwards served as secretary to the Duke of Aumale at the Château de Chantilly. In 1883/84 he conducted archival research in Vienna and Berlin, and in 1884 received his doctorate of letters at the Sorbonne.
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Rule of St. Benedict, written at Monte Cassino in the late 11th century The beneventan script was a medieval script which originated in the Duchy of Benevento in southern Italy. It was also called Langobarda, Longobarda, Longobardisca (signifying its origins in the territories ruled by the Lombards), or sometimes Gothica; it was first called Beneventan by palaeographer E. A. Lowe. It is mostly associated with Italy south of Rome, but it was also used in Beneventan-influenced centres across the Adriatic Sea in Dalmatia. The script was used from approximately the mid-8th century until the 13th century, although there are examples from as late as the 16th century.
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Louis Demaison was the grandson of (1796–1856), a trader who was mayor of Reims in 1837 and 1838 and Sophie Henriot whom he married in 1821. He began his studies in law and after obtaining his license he followed the courses of Gabriel Monod, Gaston Paris and Darmester at the École pratique des hautes études. An historian graduated from the École Nationale des Chartes in 1876 as palaeographer archivist, he led a parallel administrative career and a career in research with numerous publications alone or with others, including Henry Jadart and Charles Feodor Givelet. A student of Lefèvre Pontalis, he was also an outstanding historian of art and architecture.
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His second wife, the former Dorothy Rosenzweig (married 1942), collaborated with him on some of his later publications. As an amateur or self-taught palaeographer, Tannenbaum took positions and presented arguments on issues involving this area of Shakespeare studies, burgeoning at the time-- though he often ended up on the side opposite the evolving scholarly and critical consensus. He was intensely skeptical of the view that Shakespeare contributed to the revision of the play Sir Thomas More, and argued against the work of Sir Edward Maunde Thompson and his collaborators. Tannenbaum also was deeply involved on the question of the forgeries of John Payne Collier.
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By Stubbs' contemporaries and after his death Stubbs was considered to have been in the front rank of historical scholars both as an author and a critic, and as a master of every department of the historian's work, from the discovery of materials to the elaboration of well founded theories and literary production. 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. His merits as an author are often judged solely by his Constitutional History. However, Stubbs' work is not entirely unquestionable.
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Charles Graux (23 November 1852 – 8 January 1882) was a French classicist and palaeographer. Apart from scores of articles and reviews, he published important critical editions of works by Xenophon and Plutarch and pioneering, descriptive catalogs of the medieval copies of ancient Greek texts preserved in the libraries of Spain and Denmark.A bibliography of Graux’s publications appears in the memorial volume: Ernest Thorin, editor, Mélanges Graux: Recueil de Travaux d’Erudition Classique dédié a la mémoire de Charles Graux (Paris, 1884). A collection of his articles appeared after his death: Ch.-Émile Ruelle, editor, Les Articles Originaux publiés dans divers Recueils par Charles Graux, (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1893).
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The palaeographer must know, first, the language of the text (that is, one 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 or notarial abbreviations. Philological knowledge of the language, vocabulary, and grammar generally used at a given time or place can help palaeographers identify ancient or more recent forgeries versus authentic documents. Knowledge of writing materials is also essential to the study of handwriting and to the identification of the periods in which a document or manuscript may have been produced.Robert P. Gwinn, "Paleography" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, Micropædia, Vol.
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A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, Robert Marichal obtained his archivist palaeographer degree in 1927 with a thesis entitled Les traductions provençales du Livre de Sidrach, précédées d'un classement des manuscrits français. He was then a curator at the Archives nationales from 1929 to 1949. Professor of French language and literature from the Middle Ages at the faculty of letters of the Institut catholique de Paris (1930-1974), he was a POW between 1940 and 1945, assigned to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin where he studied the papyrus collection. From 1949 until 1974, he was director of Latin and French palaeography studies at the École pratique des hautes études, where he succeeded Charles Samaran.
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Vezin was born in Vannes. A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, he obtained the archivist palaeographer diploma in 1958 with a thesis entitled Les scriptoria d’Angers au XIe siècleSite de l'École des chartesLes "scriptoria" d'Angers au XIe siècle on WorldCat then joined the Casa de Velázquez. A curator at the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1962 to 1974, he also taught palaeography at the Institute for Latin Studies of the Paris-Sorbonne University, as well as palaeography and codicology at the École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques. In 1974, he was elected a research director at the École pratique des hautes études.
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Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum (1874–1948) was a literary scholar, bibliographer, and palaeographer, best known for his work on William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Tannenbaum was born in Hungary, then part of the Austro- Hungarian Empire; he emigrated to the United States in 1886, the year he turned fourteen, and became a citizen in 1895. Graduating from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1898, he pursued a career in psychotherapy, with a strong interest in the work of Sigmund Freud. He was part of the circle of early Freud supporters that included Ernest Jones and Sándor Ferenczi, and was connected with early efforts to establish an English- language journal of psychotherapy.
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Trever photographed the scrolls and sent the photographs to palaeographer and dean of American archaeologists, Professor William Albright of Johns Hopkins University, who dated the manuscript of Isaiah at around 100 BCE. Early in 1949, Mar Samuel, Syrian Archbishop–Metropolitan of Jerusalem, brought the scroll to the United States, hoping to sell it and the three others he had in his possession. Samuel permitted ASOR to publish them within a limit of three years, and so Dr. Millar Burrows, director of ASOR, along with Dr. John Trever and Dr. William Brownlee prepared the scrolls for publication. The scrolls initially purchased by Samuel were published by the American Schools of Oriental Research in 1950, and included 1QIsaa, 1QpHab, and 1QS.
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Gilmore was determined to uncover his history and name his victim, Juana Francesca de Rodriguez, whose identity had been obscured from published accounts. Traveling to Spain, Italy and Mexico with an interpreter, and working with a palaeographer Gilmore pieced together the archival records and began compiling them into a book. During this period, she established the Texas Presidios Project, in part to locate the various sites where Rábago had command. In 2003 Gilmore became the inaugural recipient of the Curtis D. Tunnell Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes excellence in Texas archeology and in 2008, was honored by Governor Rick Perry and the Texas History Commission with receipt of the Governor's Award for Historic Preservation.
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Johnson's paternal grandfather, Wilfred Johnson – Ali Kemal's son, was an RAF pilot in Coastal Command during World War II. His father's other ancestry includes English, German and French; one of his German ancestors was said to be the illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and thus a descendant of King George II of Great Britain. This would make him and Elizabeth II sixth cousins twice removed. Through Mary of Teck's connection to Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, they would in that case also have a closer genealogical link as fifth cousins twice removed. Johnson's mother is the granddaughter of Elias Avery Lowe, a palaeographer, who was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the US, and Pennsylvania-born Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, a translator of Thomas Mann.
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Richard Simon, biblical scholar and the first textual critic, dated the manuscript to the 10th century. According to palaeographer Bernard de MontfauconBernard de Montfaucon, Palaeoraphia Graeca, Paris 1708, p. 41, 231–233 and biblical scholar Scholz it was written in the 8th century. According to Leonard Hug, biblical scholar, it is not older than the ninth century, because no one has yet shown that the compressed letters Σ, Ε, Ο, and Θ were ever used in manuscripts at so early a date as the 8th century. The letters Ζ and Ξ ever have their strokes prolonged beneath the line, or that the small strokes at the bottom of the letter Δ are ever extended below the line, in the manuscripts from the 8th century.
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An archivist and palaeographer (class 2004 of the École nationale des chartes), a former member of the École française de Rome (2008-2011), professeure agrégée, Giron-Panel holds a degree in history from the Pierre Mendès-France University of Grenoble and a doctorate in musicology from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her early work focused on Venice in the modern era, female musical practices, travel stories in Italy and the circulation of cultural models in Europe. She is also interested in gender issues in music (castratos, contraltos, musicians and transgender musicians), the punk scene and comic strips. In 2006 she obtained the prize of the "Société française d'histoire des hôpitaux", in 2016 the prize of the Levi foundation of the Académie française and the of the .
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From 1922 until his death Perrin was honorary editor of the Mariner's Mirror and honorary secretary of both the Navy Records Society (since 1912: it owes to him its revival after the War) and, by appointment of the Admiralty, to the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum and MacPherson Collection at Greenwich. In the course of his research work Perrin made himself proficient in foreign languages, and he became an expert palaeographer. He was a keen chess player and an amateur organist of more than average skill. He left a widow, but no family. Since 2006 the Flag Institute has sponsored an annual public lecture on a flag- related topic, known as the ‘Perrin Lecture’ in honour of W.G. Perrin.
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In his early years, Erlande-Brandenburg studied at and in Marseille, then he entered Lycée Henri-IV to prepare the later study at the École Nationale des Chartes, from where he graduated as an archivist-palaeographer in 1964. He also studied at the École du Louvre, where he received his doctorate in 1971. He was chief curator of the Musée de Cluny (Musée national du Moyen Âge) since 1967, chief conservator and director of the National Museum of the Renaissance in Château d'Écouen from 1980 to 1987, of which he was a founder, and assistant to the director of the Musées de France from 1987 to 1991. He became director of the Musée de Cluny from 1991 to 1994 and director of Museum of the Renaissance from 1999 to 2005.
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The Ars amatoria was included in the syllabuses of mediaeval schools from the second half of the 11th century, and its influence on 12th and 13th centuries' European literature was so great that the German mediaevalist and palaeographer Ludwig Traube dubbed the entire age 'aetas Ovidiana' ('the Ovidian epoch').McKinley, K.L., Reading the Ovidian Heroine, Brill, Leiden, 2001, xiii As in the years immediately following its publication, the Ars amatoria has historically been victim of moral outcry. All of Ovid's works were burned by Savonarola in Florence, Italy in 1497; an English translation of the Ars amatoria was seized by U.S. Customs in 1930.Haight, A. L. and Grannis, C. B., Banned Books 387 BCE to 1978 CE, R.R. Bowker & Co, 1978 Despite the actions against the work, it continues to be studied in college courses on Latin literature.
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According to Tregelles, textual critic, the manuscript is not older than the middle of the ninth century. According to Frederic G. Kenyon, biblical scholar, the manuscript must be not earlier than the 11th century, because of the formal liturgical hand and the palaeographic ground. But Kenyon saw only Scrivener's facsimile and his assessment was made only on the basis of this facsimile text. According to Henri Omont, palaeographer, it is impossible to give precise date to this manuscript on the palaeographical ground, because there are many manuscripts written in that way, but they are not dated. The 9th century is possible as well as the 11th century. According to Silva Lake, textual critic, it is hardly to prove it have been written earlier than the year 1000, and is perhaps as late as the middle of the eleventh century.
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Zorzi, La libreria di san Marco..., pp. 189 and 209 The custodian was additionally tasked with showing the library to foreigners who visited primarily to admire the structure and the manuscripts, commenting in their travel diaries on the magnificence of the building, the ancient statuary, the paintings, and on the codices themselves.Zorzi, La libreria di san Marco..., pp. 188 and 264 Notably among these were the English travel-writer Thomas Coryat, the French archaeologist Jacob Spon, the French architect Robert de Cotte, and the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann.Zorzi, La libreria di san Marco..., pp. 224, 264, and 342Other noted visitors and travel writers included Fynes Moryson, Charles de Brosses, the Scottish historian Gilbert Burnet, the French palaeographer Jean Mabillon, Richard Lassels, the English music historian Charles Burney, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Pierre-Jean Grosley, and the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande. See Zorzi, La libreria di san Marco..., pp.
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Fitzgerald's inspiration for the opening of the novel came when she saw through a Cambridge bus window some cows in ecstasy over willow branches that had been broken off by strong winds; she viewed this as an instance of reason giving way to imagination in 'this orderly University city'. Fitzgerald was familiar with the Cambridge of the 1910s, having researched it for The Knox Brothers (1977), a history of her Knox relatives. Her uncle, Dillwyn Knox had been a classical scholar there, rather than a physicist, but like the Fred of the book had had a passionate attention to proofs and exact detail; he also like Fred had as a young man suffered a loss of faith that he had tried to shield from his father. Dillwyn Knox had been a student and Fellow at King's, whose Provost at the time, M. R. James, was - like the Dr Matthews of the novel - a medievalist, palaeographer and author of ghost stories.
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Achille Peigné-Delacourt, an antiquary and collector of mediaeval documents, realised the importance of Germain's illustrations, since so many of the original buildings had been lost in the interval. In 1860 he published reproductions of the engravings relating to the monasteries in the province of Reims, with the promise to publish the complete set of the engravings after taking care to remove the other illustrations that had been added to them by the various amateur collectors who had preserved them. The task of verifying which engravings were genuinely among those commissioned by Germain was undertaken by Louis Courajod, archivist and palaeographer attached to the Department of Prints and Photographs of the Bibliothèque Nationale (then the Bibliothèque Impériale) for the complete edition of the illustrations of the Monasticon Gallicanum published in 1870-71, which successfully reproduced the prints at half-size without losing sharpness of detail. A couple of facsimile editions were published in the later 20th century.
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In 1850, De Montaignon graduated as an archivist and palaeographer from the École des chartes, with a thesis entitled Essai de dictionnaire des anciens peintres français pendant le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance. He began his career as attached to the Louvre and the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal and in 1864 became secretary of the École des Chartes, with a position of substitute teacher. In 1868, at the death of Auguste Vallet de VirivilleOraisons funèbres by Paul Meyer, directeur de l'École des chartes, Arthur Giry, président de la Société de l'École des chartes et Ulysse Robert, président de la Société des antiquaires de France the post of professor in full at the chair of bibliography and classification of archives and libraries. His work is very diverse even as regretted Paul Meyer in his funeral oration, somewhat scattered: the printed bibliography of his work that was offered by friends report to nearly 700 numbers.
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Born in Toulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École pratique des hautes études; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine (1878), at Fontainebleau (1884), and at Sainte- Geneviève, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885. 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. His thesis on leaving the École des Chartes was his ' (inserted in vol. xxxiv of the '), an important contribution to the history of the Albigenses. This marked him out as a capable editor for the new edition of ' by Dom Vaissète: he superintended the reprinting of the text, adding notes on the feudal administration of this province from 900 to 1250, on the government of Alphonse of Toulouse, brother of St Louis (1220–1271), and on the historical geography of the province of Languedoc in the Middle Ages.
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Her research work in national and parish archives is also important, and she is considered an outstanding palaeographer, which is reflected in her large number of documentary works, always based on her transcriptions. In March 2010, Mercedes Agulló in her book "A vueltas con el autor del Lazarillo" published an investigation in which, based on the discovery in some papers by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza with the phrase "a file of corrections made for the printing of Lazarillo and Propaladia", she postulated "a serious hypothesis about the authorship of Lazarillo that, strengthened by other facts and circumstances, points solidly in the direction of Don Diego". The hypothesis takes up again a traditional attribution, since in 1607, in the catalogue of Spanish writers Catalogus Clarorum Hispaniae scriptorum, which was written by the flamenco Valerio Andrés Taxandro, it is said that Diego Hurtado de Mendoza "composed [...] the entertainment book called Lazarillo de Tormes". Other authors from the 17th century, as well as the Diccionario de Autoridades de la Real Academia Española (1726-1739), mention this attribution, which reached a certain fortune, especially in the 19th century.
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