. . . . . . . . . . . "Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from Greek: \u03C0\u03B1\u03BB\u03B1\u03B9\u03CC\u03C2, palai\u00F3s, \"old\", and \u03B3\u03C1\u03AC\u03C6\u03B5\u03B9\u03BD, graphein, \"to write\") is the study of ancient and historical handwriting (that is to say, of the forms and processes of writing, not the textual content of documents)."@en .