Paleography

Paleography is the study of ancient handwriting. Using paleography, it is possible to understand communication between people.

Paleography Media

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  William Shakespeare's will, written in secretary hand

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  Drawing of the hieroglyphic seal found in the Troy VIIb layer

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  Table showing the Mandaic alphabet with some of the mysteries represented by the letters

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  Greek minuscule, 15th-century manuscript of Aristotle.

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  Detail of the Berlin papyrus 9875 showing the 5th column of Timotheus' Persae, with a coronis symbol to mark the end.

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  The Derveni Papyrus, a Greek Macedonian philosophical text dating Template:Csbc, considered Europe's oldest manuscript

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  Greek cursive variants Tau

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  Greek papyrus with Homer's verses, 1st century BC

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  Copy of Herculanean Rolls, Greek papyrus 157–152

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  Section of the Codex Alexandrinus, the oldest Greek witness of the Byzantine text in the Gospels.