no amount either of grammar or of palaeography will teach a man one scrap of textual criticism
It is not so good for the intellect [to do too much palaeographical work] and the work is tolerable only when there is a distant literary end in view
The Bodley is now so cold that I cannot sit there the requisite time for due collation
paleography is the foundation of all history
My interest in the Pontifical is purely palaeographical
It is no sound palaeography to be too creative and innovative at the cost of the verifiable, linguistic basis
Until the Middle Ages there was no grammatical analysis which made clear the conditions under which Hebrew consonants might seem to disappear, to intrude, or to occur in peculiar positions
Grammar is a commentary of the text, from a linguistic point of view
it is common knowledge that scribes often multiply exclamations
You & Mrs Bridges, put me on the track of the Half-Uncial, as you may remember, long ago, when you gave me a copy of Maunde Thompson’s Greek & Latin Palæography