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Research in the field of epigraphy is continually enriched by the discovery of unpublished documents and is today experiencing a radical renewal thanks to digital technologies.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

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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