«Libri ad conventum pertinentes». Catalogo dei manoscritti più antichi della Biblioteca comunale di Sarnano
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Maela Carletti - Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italia - email orcid profile
- Costanza Lucchetti - Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italia - email orcid profile
- Antonio Montefusco - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
The volume presents new contributions to the study of the library of the convent of San Francesco in Sarnano. The first part brings together essays devoted to various aspects of the book culture of this town in the Marche region, offering a complex and multifaceted picture. Antonio Montefusco reconstructs the dynamics of Franciscan culture and written production, paying particular attention to textual traditions and the circulation of works. Maela Carletti examines the manuscript fragments preserved in the Historical Municipal Archive of Sarnano, which bear witness to dismembered codices and registers subsequently reused in bindings: traces of a book heritage that has been partly lost and is difficult to reconstruct. Monica Bocchetta explores ways of reconstructing historical collections through the intersections between texts and book artefacts, with particular attention to miscellanies and the circulation of philosophical works associated with the Paduan school. Alessandro Sarti’s essay examines Sarnano’s illuminated manuscript heritage within the broader context of Franciscan visual culture, highlighting both elements rooted in tradition and the variety of artistic solutions found in the manuscripts. Costanza Lucchetti retraces the history of the manuscript collection of the Franciscan library, providing a historical and codicological overview of the books. The second part of the volume consists of a catalogue of 83 medieval manuscripts dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. The entries describe the codicological and palaeographical features of the manuscripts, their contents, decorative programmes, bindings, and traces of provenance and use. Taken together, the essays and the catalogue contribute to a deeper understanding of the historical and cultural context in which the Sarnano collection was formed and expanded, as well as of the material and textual characteristics of the manuscripts it comprises.
Keywords Marche • Art history • Provenance and reception of texts • Angelo Clareno • Aristotelian-Averroistic tradition in fifteenth ce • Medieval historiography • Illumination • Franciscan library • Manuscript fragments • Codicology • Archaeology of the book • Palaeography • Biblioteca Comunale di Sarnano • Franciscan books • Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius • Sammelband • History of libraries • Sarnano • Medieval manuscripts • Franciscanism
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-114-4 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-114-4 | ISBN (PRINT) 979-12-5742-115-1 | Published Nov. 11, 2026 | Language it
Subseries Serie occidentale e-ISSN 2610-9441 ISSN 2610-945X
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