"Palaeographer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... accent, and there always hangs about his presence a melancholy halo of mystery and Italy. His quiet unassumed familiarity with every museum and library on the Continent astonishes even the most erudite Teuton. Among archaeologists he is thought a pre-eminent palaeographer, among palaeographers a great archaeologist. I have heard him called the Furtwangler of Britain. His facsimiles and collated texts of the classics are familiar throughout the world. He has independent means, ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
... de l'Ecole des chartes, 1896, p. 88. Compare analogous traits in the interesting intellectual biography of the Hellenist, palaeographer, and bibliographer, Charles Graux, by E. Lavisse (Questions d'enseignement national, Paris, 1885, 18mo, ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois
... suggestion, after all, finding that they could make nothing of it themselves, and took it to the British Museum. The Museum people referred them to Professor Poppelbaum, the great palaeographer, to whom they ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman |
