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bibliologia

Bibliologia, also known as bibliology, is an interdisciplinary field that studies books as physical objects, cultural artifacts, and carriers of information. The term derives from Greek biblion "book" and logos "study" or "word." In different linguistic traditions the exact scope varies: in some Romance-language contexts bibliología denotes the general science of books, closely related to bibliography and library science, while in others it refers specifically to the study of book history and material culture.

The discipline encompasses several subareas: codicology and palaeography (the analysis of manuscripts and their physical construction);

In modern scholarship, bibliology often intersects with digital humanities through topics such as digitization, digital preservation,

Geographically, the term is more common in some European and Latin American contexts, where scholars may speak

printing
history,
typography,
and
the
economics
of
publishing;
and
conservation
and
restoration
of
book
materials.
It
also
includes
bibliographic
description
and
metadata
practices,
edition
criticism,
and
the
organization
of
bibliographic
information,
which
overlap
with
library
and
information
science.
Book
history
situates
texts
within
networks
of
production,
distribution,
reception,
literacy,
and
reading
practices,
exploring
how
texts
circulated
across
time
and
space.
and
the
study
of
e-books
as
cultural
artifacts.
It
is
distinct
from
bibliography
as
a
formal
listing
of
sources,
though
there
is
substantial
overlap
in
methods
and
aims.
of
a
"science
of
the
book"
that
complements
philology,
codicology,
and
library
science.