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Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies.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

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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