Researchers in handwriting recognition, forensic handwriting examination, kinesiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, paleography and neuroscience cooperate in order to achieve a better understanding of the human skill of handwriting.
Dating of manuscript material by a radiocarbon dating test requires that a small part of the material be destroyed in the process; it is less accurate than dating from paleography.
The methods of music history include source studies (esp. manuscript studies), paleography, philology (especially textual criticism), style criticism, historiography (the choice of historical method), musical analysis, and iconography.
The same is generally true for works dealing with epigraphy, paleography or other philological contexts where adherence to original historical spellings is considered important.
Disciplines of textual scholarship include, among others, textual criticism, stemmatology, paleography, genetic criticism (critique gntique), bibliography and history of the book.
