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Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies.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