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Ebert's Codicology a Hundred and Fifty Years Old

Ebert's Codicology a Hundred and Fifty Years Old Varia bibliographica EBERT'S CODICOLOGY A HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD The year i9?5 ought not to pass without a short tribute to a small book published in i 8as: Zur Handschriftenkunde, by F. A. Ebert, then librarian at W olfenbü ttel.l This book con- tains the first clear definition of what is now called 'codicology', together with an excellent programme for this science and many interesting remarks on points of detail. Our present-day conception of codicology (the term may be considered equivalent to Handschriftenkunde) dates from two articles by Masai, of 1930 and 1956.2 But not all of the essential traits characterizing this conception date from 1950. Ebert already saw codicology as a sister science of diplomatics and epigraphy-distinct from them, of equal rank with them. Two of Masai's tenets were not anticipated by Ebert. The first: that codicology is an autonomous archaeological discipline; to Ebert it did not have an end in itself but (mainly) in philology. The second: that palaeography is another, equally autonomous discipline; Ebert was interested in the study of script as a sector of codicology only. (In both respects many scholars today would probably side with Ebert.) So Ebert's 'Handschriftenkunde' is not identical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Ebert's Codicology a Hundred and Fifty Years Old

Quaerendo , Volume 5 (4): 336 – Jan 1, 1975

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Brill
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© 1975 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0014-9527
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1570-0690
DOI
10.1163/157006975X00280
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Varia bibliographica EBERT'S CODICOLOGY A HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD The year i9?5 ought not to pass without a short tribute to a small book published in i 8as: Zur Handschriftenkunde, by F. A. Ebert, then librarian at W olfenbü ttel.l This book con- tains the first clear definition of what is now called 'codicology', together with an excellent programme for this science and many interesting remarks on points of detail. Our present-day conception of codicology (the term may be considered equivalent to Handschriftenkunde) dates from two articles by Masai, of 1930 and 1956.2 But not all of the essential traits characterizing this conception date from 1950. Ebert already saw codicology as a sister science of diplomatics and epigraphy-distinct from them, of equal rank with them. Two of Masai's tenets were not anticipated by Ebert. The first: that codicology is an autonomous archaeological discipline; to Ebert it did not have an end in itself but (mainly) in philology. The second: that palaeography is another, equally autonomous discipline; Ebert was interested in the study of script as a sector of codicology only. (In both respects many scholars today would probably side with Ebert.) So Ebert's 'Handschriftenkunde' is not identical

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Published: Jan 1, 1975

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