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NOEL DE WAILLY, JOSEPH. Eléments de paléographie. Pour servir a l'étude des documents inédits sur l'histoire de France publiés par ordre du Roi et par les soins du Ministre de l'Instruction Publique.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1838. Two volumes. Folio, pp. [4], XII, 716; [4], IV, 452. Contemporary half-leather with gilt-lettered spines. Illustrated with 37 plates. Volume I starts with 154 pages of extensive chronological tables (Roman period, Gregorian calendar, Dates, etc.) The next 13 chapters give a thorough treatment of the different aspects of paleography as e.g. style, formulae, different kind of paper, ink, writing and different lettering, abbreviations, punctuation, correction, cipher-systems, estimation of age etc. The second volume is devoted to the science of seals and counter-seals (royalty, clergy, nobility). Complete with the two appendixes containing 17 facsimile-plates with many examples of writings from manuscripts and diplomas, each with commentary and all 20 folding plates with tissue-guards exhibiting a profuse number of seals, again extensively described. A very thorough text-book and allthough obviously somewhat outdated, still very usefull. From the library of the famous collection of J.A. Dortmond. 9000 gram; pakket
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