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Palaeographia Graeca
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple scholarly catalogs (including local catalogs, Google Books, and Internet Archive) yielded no evidence of an English translation of Bernard de Montfaucon's 'Palaeographia Graeca' (1708). The work is a foundational Latin text in the history of paleography, and while it is frequently cited in English-language academic literature, no complete or partial English translation appears to exist.
Verified Apr 1, 2026 via local catalogs, open library, google books, internet archive, openalex · methodology
Bernard de Montfaucon turns the study of dust-covered manuscripts into a detective story of human history. Readers learn to date ancient texts, decode secret scripts, and reconstruct the lost libraries of the Byzantine world.