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Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies.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