Definition of Codicology

1. Noun. the study of codices (early handwritten books) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Codicology

1. [n -GIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Codicology

codgerly
codgers
codges
codging
codhead
codheads
codical
codices
codicil
codicillary
codicils
codicological
codicologies
codicologist
codicologists
codicology (current term)
codifferentiation
codifiabilities
codifiability
codification
codifications
codified
codifier
codifiers
codifies
codify
codifying
codilla
codillas
codille

Literary usage of Codicology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Reluctant Author: Cardinal Pole and His Manuscripts by Thomas Frederick Mayer (1999)
"... scholarship has not made much use of the manuscripts, and the one major exception could have paid more attention to their codicology and palaeography. ..."

2. The Queen Mary Psalter: A Study of Affect and Audience by Anne Rudloff Stanton (2001)
"In "Notes on the codicology," 255,1 suggested that the same hand is also responsible for the preface script; the ascenders of the letters d, 1, ..."

3. Novae quaestiones horatianae by Karl Kirchner, Carl Christian Jacob Kirchner (1847)
"eruditos, animi integritate ac modestia, sine stolida arrogantia ve1 praejudicata opinione fiant, cum opus sit in rebus dubiis ad verum vel ..."

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