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The Paleography Lab at Yale seeks to promote the study of manuscript hands in all their variety through the written history of human culture. More than simply transmitting texts, we seek to study the means of transmission and the various forms that transmission takes. Based in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, we hope to bring together the study of handwritten texts both throughout Yale and throughout the world.
The libraries at Yale are particularly rich in manuscript materials and there has been a long history of teaching paleography in ancient Greek, Demotic, Latin, Middle English and Japanese. But there are many more manuscript traditions that we would like to explore, including Armenian, Syriac, Tibetian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and many other languages. We hope to be a clearinghouse for the many different types of paleography being taught within the United States and we hope to encourage paleography in understudied languages.
If you run a program that you would like us to advertise or if you are interested in working in the various resources of Yale University, either as a scholar, a teacher, or a student, please contact Raymond Clemens, Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. If you would like to receive information from us, please add yourself to the Early Books mailing list.
