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Paleography: Science of the old writings
Definition
Paleography, it is the science of the old writings, it is also the training with the reading of old documents.
Description
Initiation with this discipline will make us discover all the richness of the old funds today still mainly unexplored because of the difficulty of reading, of the shapes of letters of course, but especially of the characteristics and abbreviations (form of shorthand) major problems of the beginners. Who did not discourage himself in front of an old act, one period of adaptation is necessary at the time of the deciphering of documents compiled by a new scribe, it is necessary to familiarize himself with his writing by initially deciphering the words easiest to read, then one reconsiders the passages to our range, by leaving blank the incomprehensible words, after several attempts one is accustomed to graphics and all becomes clearer.
Author
Arafath Hassan
Author Email
arafath_iiuc2004@yahoo.com
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