archaeography

== English == === Etymology === Formed as archae- +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy, after the Ancient Greek ἀρχαιογράφος (arkhaiográphos, “the writing of antiquities”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ärkēŏʹgrəfĭ, IPA(key): /ɑːkiːˈɒɡɹəfɪ/ Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi === Noun === archaeography (countable and uncountable, plural archaeographies) Descriptive aspects and practices of early antiquarianism, and later archaeology in general. An interdisciplinary field that studies various, mutually correlated aspects and properties of ancient manuscripts, early printed materials and other textual historical sources, thus preparing and producing scholarly descriptions and editions. ==== Derived terms ==== archaeographist archaeographic archaeographically ==== Translations ==== === References === “archæography” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)