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Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies.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