Bruce Ferrini paleography collection
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Examples of various historical writing systems and scripts, including hieroglyphics on fragments of papyrus, reed sticks with proto-Arabian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, a bowl inscribed in Etruscan, Aramaic incantation bowls, a bronze piece with a runic inscription, Arabic on cloth fragments, decorated 13th-century Bible leaves, and other writings through the 18th century.
Dates
- circa 4000 B.C.-1800.
Creator
- Ferrini, Bruce P. (Collector, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in ancient Egyptian, proto-Arabic, Etruscan, Aramaic, Arabic, and Latin.
Extent
2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Examples of various historical writing systems and scripts, including hieroglyphics on fragments of papyrus, reed sticks with proto-Arabian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, a bowl inscribed in Etruscan, Aramaic incantation bowls, a bronze piece with a runic inscription, Arabic on cloth fragments, decorated 13th-century Bible leaves, and other writings through the 18th century.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- February 2017
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, February 2017
- Date modified:
- Kristen Reichenbach, August 2018
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu