Series |
Antiquity Studies
Volume 24 | Edited book | Altera pars laboris
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Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies.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 • Ferdinando Galiani • Iconography • Manuscript • Roman epigraphy • Inscriptions • Jupiter Dolichenus • Tarentum • Sevillian humanism • Narona • French Revolution • Collection • Epigraphic manuscript • Falsae • Lost inscriptions • Aurelio Guarnieri Ottoni • Latin inscriptions • Turranius Gratianus • Writing tablets from London • Procedural representation • Epigraphic forgery • Antoine Galland • Antiquarianism • Bonifacius Amerbach • Hercules Invictus • Reuse • Trebellius Pollio • Jacopo Bellini • Codices Vaticani • Conventus Hispalensis • Bellièvre • Archives • Nani Museum • Roman antiquities • Dioscuri • Work • Epigraphy • Manuscripts • Churches • Stones • Epigraphic fakes • Historiography • Vaison-la-Romaine • Epitaphs • Collecting • Suarès • Acknowledgement of debt • Lyon • Codices Barberini • National Archaeological Museum of Naples • Authenticity • Farnese Collection • Viducasses • Bibliotheca Epigraphica Manuscripta • Andrea Alciato • Libraries • Roman Campania • Aureolus • Roman jurists • Iberian epigraphy • Honorific inscription • Nani • Devotion • Phlegraean Fields • Imperial administration • Rodrigo Caro • Normandy • Antiquarian collections • Theodor Mommsen • Epigraphic manuscripts
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 it, fr
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