codicologyn.
/ˌkəʊdᵻˈkɒlədʒi/, /ˌkɒdᵻˈkɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌkoʊdəˈkɑlədʒi/, /ˌkɑdəˈkɑlədʒi/ The study of manuscript books, including their physical structure, texts, scripts, binding, and other features of their production, and their interrelationships.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > manuscript book > [noun] > study of
codicology1953
1953 D. C. C. Young in Scriptorium 7 7 If the suggestion that O [= MS. Vat. gr. 915] for Theognis is by Gregoras be accepted, much may follow for the codicology of the other texts in O.
1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 568/2 The recent development of ‘codicology’, which Greg would have subsumed under bibliography—the study of manuscripts as physical objects in order to identify the workshops that produced them.
2017 J. B. Smith Walter Map & Matter of Brit. 194 M. R. James did not approach medieval manuscripts with the same passion for codicology that a modern bibliographer might.
Derivatives
codiˈcologist n. an expert in or student of codicology.
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1959 Gnomon 31 478 Both questions can be resolved only by a detailed discussion based upon full collations of the manuscripts in question and carried out by a scholar who is not only a codicologist but a fully equipped textual critic.
2015 M. K. Foys in M. Johnston & M. Van Dussen Medieval MS Bk. vii. 123 Beginning to understand..means carefully sifting through the various commentaries of the editors, codicologists, and cataloguers who have at one time or another treated parts of the manuscript's past.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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