Paleography

Japanese: paleography
Paleography

…The latter are documents written for legal or practical purposes, such as deeds, contracts, reports, ledgers, court records, and statutes, and are called ancient documents, and are mainly kept in archives. While the study of the writing style of ancient records and documents is called palaeography or paleography, paleography is the study of the authenticity and genuineness of ancient documents by criticizing and examining them from various criteria, such as the paper material (papyrus, parchment, paper), ink, format, writing style, seals, countersignatures, and dating methods, in addition to the writing style. Recently, a method has been developed to use computers to compare and examine the authenticity of ancient documents through the comparison of Latin writing styles. …

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Japanese:

…後者は法律的または実用的な目的で書かれた証書,契約書,報告書,帳簿,訴訟記録,法令集で古文書と呼ばれ,主として文書館に所蔵されている。古記録,古文書の書体に関して批判・検討する学問が〈古書体学palaeography,paleography〉と呼ばれるのに対し,書体だけでなく,古文書の用紙の材質(パピルス,羊皮紙,紙),インク,書式,文体,印章,副署,年代表示方式等のさまざまな基準から,批判・検討を加え,古文書の真偽,真正性を検討する学問が古文書学である。最近ではコンピューターを利用して,ラテン文の文体の比較検討を通じて古文書の真偽を検討する手法も開発されている。…

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