Antiquity Studies

Altera pars laboris

Studies on the Handwritten Tradition of Ancient Inscriptions

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open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Lorenzo Calvelli - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Giovannella Cresci Marrone - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Alfredo Buonopane - Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia - email

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Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies.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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-374-8 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-374-8 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-375-5 | Number of pages 348 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Dec. 11, 2019 | Language fr, it

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