archaeography

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Noun

1. Descriptive aspects and practices of early [[antiquarianism]], and later [[archaeology]] in general.
2. An [[interdisciplinary]] field that studies various, mutually correlated aspects and properties of ancient [[manuscripts]], early printed materials and other textual historical sources, thus preparing and producing scholarly descriptions and editions.

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