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Studies on the Handwritten Tradition of Ancient Inscriptions
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abstract
Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies. A fundamental component of the ‘epigrapher’s craft’, however, is also the philological reconstruction and investigation of the figures who engaged in the collation of ancient inscription witnesses. The volume includes sixteen essays by Italian and French scholars dedicated to the examination of the manuscript and printed tradition of epigraphy, which Theodor Mommsen called the “most difficult part” of the discipline. From the treasures still hidden in numerous libraries across Europe, a picture of great documentary richness emerges, which portends enormous potential for future research.
Inscriptions • Aurelio Guarnieri Ottoni • Devotion • Sevillian humanism • Roman antiquities • Phlegraean Fields • Nani Museum • Roman Campania • Iconography • Vaison-la-Romaine • Codices Barberini • Honorific inscription • Suarès • Turranius Gratianus • French Revolution • Acknowledgement of debt • Procedural representation • Epigraphic fakes • Falsae • Viducasses • Lyon • Lost inscriptions • Collection • Epigraphic manuscript • Epigraphy • Aureolus • Epitaphs • Narona • Antiquarian collections • Nani • Archives • Bibliotheca Epigraphica Manuscripta • Churches • Dioscuri • Jacopo Bellini • Authenticity • Stones • Codices Vaticani • Digesta • Andrea Alciato • Jupiter Dolichenus • Ferdinando Galiani • Theodor Mommsen • Antoine Galland • Bonifacius Amerbach • National Archaeological Museum of Naples • Rodrigo Caro • Writing tablets from London • Manuscripts • Latin inscriptions • Manuscript • Roman epigraphy • Trebellius Pollio • Antiquarianism • Hercules Invictus • Tarentum • Normandy • Epigraphic manuscripts • Epigraphic forgery • Collecting • Farnese Collection • Historiography • Imperial administration • Reuse • Conventus Hispalensis • Libraries • Bellièvre • Work • Iberian epigraphy • Roman jurists