DIPLOMATICS

Diplomatics

Diplomatics, or Diplomatic, is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents – particularly, but not exclusively, historical documents. It focuses on the conventions, protocols and formulae that have been used by document creators, and uses these to increase understanding of the processes of document creation, of information transmission, and of the relationships between the facts which the documents purport to record and reality.

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diplomatics

Noun

  1. The science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents.


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