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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Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies.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.
Reuse • Codices Vaticani • Farnese Collection • Phlegraean Fields • Turranius Gratianus • Iberian epigraphy • Antoine Galland • Aureolus • Honorific inscription • Aurelio Guarnieri Ottoni • Jupiter Dolichenus • Manuscript • Collection • Bonifacius Amerbach • Libraries • Narona • Epigraphy • Ferdinando Galiani • Digesta • Bellièvre • Jacopo Bellini • Roman epigraphy • Falsae • Andrea Alciato • Historiography • Stones • Work • Churches • Codices Barberini • Roman jurists • Acknowledgement of debt • Epigraphic forgery • Writing tablets from London • Devotion • Manuscripts • Normandy • Tarentum • Lyon • Procedural representation • Imperial administration • Nani Museum • Viducasses • Theodor Mommsen • Latin inscriptions • Bibliotheca Epigraphica Manuscripta • Antiquarian collections • National Archaeological Museum of Naples • Hercules Invictus • Inscriptions • Nani • Trebellius Pollio • Conventus Hispalensis • Dioscuri • Epigraphic fakes • Sevillian humanism • Suarès • Epitaphs • Lost inscriptions • Rodrigo Caro • Epigraphic manuscript • Roman antiquities • Antiquarianism • Archives • Iconography • French Revolution • Authenticity • Epigraphic manuscripts • Vaison-la-Romaine • Roman Campania • Collecting