ISSN 1829-4618

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPT: CODICOLOGY, PALEOGRAPHY, AND BEYOND

By: Kouymjian Dickran, Foreign Member of NAS RA
(California State University, Fresno, Emeritus, residing in Paris)

The term “archaeology of the book” has become a catch phrase to describe the study of manuscripts as physical objects independent of their texts. It encompasses a number of sub-disciplines: codicology, paleography, binding technique, but also writing surface and method of illustration.

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