Tripartition of paleography

Autorica obrazlaže potrebu podjele paleografije na paleografiju čitanja, povijest pisma i analitičku paleografiju. Posebno obrađuje područje, zadatke i metode analitičke paleografije.The author explains the history and rationale of the tripartition of paleography into branches. She introduces her own rationale: Since every symbol can be divided into the signified and the signifier and can be seen as their union, the same applies to any old alphabet symbol. This is the basis of paleography tripartition into 1) paleography of reading, dealing with the signified, 2) analytical paleography dealing with the signifier and 3) history of script dealing with historical relationship between signifier and signified. Reasons for analytical paleography to be a special branch of paleography become obvious as the author presents its very specific fields, methods and tasks referring to the research of old Latin and Glagolitic scripts