Manuscriptology

Machine-translated from the French article

Manuscriptology is a discipline that studies ancient or historical manuscripts. It is concerned with the conservation, description, analysis and interpretation of manuscripts, which are documents written by hand before the invention of printing. This discipline often involves aspects of palaeography (the study of ancient writing), codicology (the study of manuscripts as physical objects), and may be linked to fields such as history, literature, religion and other related areas.