Hierarchical Glossary

This glossary groups similar terms into trees. Individual terms will eventually be linked to definitions. For now, to see a term's definition, please check out the PaleoGlossary: A-Z.

• Book production

• Book binding

  • Pastedown (Codex)

• Book trade

• Physical structure of documents

• Bifolia

• Composite codex

  • Codex

    • Quire OR Signature OR Gathering

      • Folio OR Leaf

        • Page

          • Recto

          • Verso

• Exemplar

  • Pecia

• Facsimile

• Notebook

• Page

• Roll

• Watermark

• Textual elements

• Annotations

  • Scholia

  • Signe-de-renvoi

• Autograph

• Catchwords

• Colophon

• Explicit

• Final position

• Gloss

• Incipit

• Initial position

• Lemma OR Lemmata

• Line filler

• Medial position

• Monocondyle

• Numeration

  • Foliation

  • Pagination

  • Quire numeration OR Quire signature

  • Signature numeration

• Page layout

  • Bounding lines OR Ruling

    • Double bounding lines

    • Frame ruling

    • Open ruling

    • Pricking

    • Single bounding lines

  • Columns

  • Ruling pattern

• Plummet

• Protocol

• Recension

• Rubrication

• Disciplines

• Codicology

• Diplomatics

• Epigraphy

• Paleography

  • Insular

• Papyrology

• Grammatical elements

• Abbreviations

  • Notae communes

  • Papal knot

• Contractions

  • Nomina sacra

• Characters

• Digraphs

• Display script

• Fusion

• Letters

  • Gothic textualis

    • Quadrata

• Ligatures

  • Ampersand

• Litterae notabiliores

• Majascule

• Miniscule

• Monogram

• Paragraphus

• Paraph

• Positura

• Praecisa

• Punctuation

• Skeletal forms

• Manuscripts

• Byname

• Holograph

• Illumination

• Palimpsest

• Provenance

• Stemma

• Transcribing (Greek)

• People and places

• Rubricator

• Scriptorium

• Scripts

• Aspect

  • Oval

  • Round

  • Slanted

  • Square

  • Straight

• Book hand OR Literary hand

• Calligraphic script

• Cursive OR Currens

• Gothic scripts

  • Rotunda

• Hand

  • Documentary hand

• Grade of script

  • Formal OR Formata (Highest grade)

  • Libraria (Middle grade)

• Majuscule script OR Bilinear OR Uncial

  • Rustic capitals

  • Square capitals

• Miniscule script OR Quadrilinear script

• Shorthand

  • Tachygraphy

• Strokes and positions

• Ascender

• Baseline

• Biting OR Fusion OR Juncture

• Bow

• Caudate

• Cross-stroke

• Descender

• Ductus

  • Formal ductus

    • Set

• Hairline

• Headline

• Headstroke

• Minim

• Serif

• Shading

• Spur

• Writing materials and instruments

• Ink

• Paper

• Papyrus

• Parchment

• Vellum