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This paper aims to give an account of some of the manuscripts related to Lothar. In its first sec- tion an attempt is made at retracing a set of books that could have belonged to Lothar’s library, nowadays known only from secondary... more
This paper aims to give an account of some of the manuscripts related to Lothar. In its first sec- tion an attempt is made at retracing a set of books that could have belonged to Lothar’s library, nowadays known only from secondary sources. In the second section some display codices are discussed, either commissioned by Lothar, or dedicated to him, such as Lothar’s Gospel Book MS Par. lat. 266 or those traditionally referred to as the Lothar-Gruppe, whose actual connec- tion both to Lothar and to each other is questioned here. The third and last part of the paper contains some considerations on the manuscripts produced during the years of Lothar’s govern- ment in Italy, that essentially coincide with the second quarter of the ninth century.
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Il saggio prende in considerazione un aspetto finora inesplorato del celebre Evangeliario Forogiuliese (Cividale del Friuli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Archivi e Biblioteca, CXXXVIII): la grafia delle note marginali del IX secolo con i... more
Il saggio prende in considerazione un aspetto finora inesplorato del celebre Evangeliario Forogiuliese (Cividale del Friuli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Archivi e Biblioteca, CXXXVIII): la grafia delle note marginali del IX secolo con i nomi dei pellegrini che visitarono il luogo dove il codice era all'epoca conservato e utilizzato, oltre che come libro liturgico, come 'Liber vitae'. Si dimostra che, a parte limitate eccezioni, tali note furono apposte non dai pellegrini stessi ma dagli ecclesiastici della comunit\ue0 che custodiva il manoscritto; si evidenzia altres\uec come dal punto di vista paleografico esse costituiscano un finora non considerato esempio di utilizzo in area friulana della minuscola carolina, restituendone un'immagine sostanzialmente omogenea e unitaria
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This paper deals with a so far little explored source on the many Black Death epidemics of the Middle Ages: the colophons of manuscripts, where the scribe refers to the plague and its evolution and impact, or focuses on the place where he... more
This paper deals with a so far little explored source on the many Black Death epidemics of the Middle Ages: the colophons of manuscripts, where the scribe refers to the plague and its evolution and impact, or focuses on the place where he finished the copy trying to escape the contagion. Despite being still at its first stage, such a research is expected to throw new light not only on the contexts of book production, but also on the chronology of the medieval epidemics.
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This paper concerns the book production and dissemination in the Patriarchy of Aquileia in the 9th century, as reflected from the few surviving manuscripts, from the textual tradition of liturgical and theological works and from indirect... more
This paper concerns the book production and dissemination in the Patriarchy of Aquileia in the 9th century, as reflected from the few surviving manuscripts, from the textual tradition of liturgical and theological works and from indirect evidence as authors' sources and library inventories. Manuscripts of the second half of the 9th century that can be on textual grounds ascribed to Friuli display common palaeographical features, to which the influence of transalpine styles does not seem to be alien. Though bitty, the research results highlight strong relationships between Friuli and transalpine lands in the 9th century
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This paper deals with the recently discovered Boccaccio\u2019s autograph of Paul the Deacon\u2019s Historia Langobardorum, the manuscript LONDON, British Library, Harley 5383. Along with its membra disiecta FIRENZE, Biblioteca... more
This paper deals with the recently discovered Boccaccio\u2019s autograph of Paul the Deacon\u2019s Historia Langobardorum, the manuscript LONDON, British Library, Harley 5383. Along with its membra disiecta FIRENZE, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 627 and 2795VI, it forms a handbook of ancient, roman and mediaeval history (besides the Historia Langobardorum, Paul Orose\u2019s Historiae adversus paganos, Paul the Deacon\u2019s Historia Romana, books XIII-XVI, Pasquale Romano\u2019s brief epistle De origine civitatis Aretii) almost entirely copied by Boccaccio. After recalling the circumstances of its finding, the paper points out that text of Historia Langobardorum contained in Harley 5383 and in its membrum disiectum Riccard. 2795VI is abridged, more than the 20% of its chapters missing or being epitomized; whether Boccaccio was also the author of this version of Paul the Deacon\u2019s work or simply its scribe remains under discussion
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This paper investigates the activity of lay scribes of manuscripts in the High Middle Ages until the end of the eleventh century. After a survey of the scholarly literature on this topic and a review of the chances to identify lay scribes... more
This paper investigates the activity of lay scribes of manuscripts in the High Middle Ages until the end of the eleventh century. After a survey of the scholarly literature on this topic and a review of the chances to identify lay scribes (colophons or other explicit mentions; iconographic, literary and documentary sources; content of the manuscripts), it focuses on three manuscripts carrying a colophon by a lay scribe (MSS Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8658A and 4632; Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 183), discussing their common features as well as the different situations and contexts they seem to refer to. The famous Law book Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731 is also discussed as a case study in which the presentation of the text offers some hints for tracing the activity of lay scribes or of scribes working in a non-ecclesiastical center of book production.
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Attraverso l’analisi di alcune lettere spedite nel 1522 dall’agente Bernardo d’Asola allo stampatore e libraio veneziano Giovanni Bartolomeo Gabiano, questo articolo riscostruisce le modalita di distribuzione dei libri alle fiere di... more
Attraverso l’analisi di alcune lettere spedite nel 1522 dall’agente Bernardo d’Asola allo stampatore e libraio veneziano Giovanni Bartolomeo Gabiano, questo articolo riscostruisce le modalita di distribuzione dei libri alle fiere di Recanati e Lanciano. Come si evince dalla lettura di queste missive, tali fiere furono particolarmente sfortunate a causa dei focolai di peste presenti in diverse zone d’Italia nel 1522. In appendice e fornita l’edizione di una lettera particolarmente significativa, spedita da Bernardo d’Asola il 17 ottobre 1522.
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Patrice Sicard, Iter Victorinum: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Hugues et de Richard de Saint-Victor; Répertoire complémentaire et études, avec un index cumulatif des manuscrits des œuvres de Hugues et de Richard de Saint-Victor. (Bibliotheca Victorina 24.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. Pp. 904...more
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Andreas Nievergelt, Rudolf Gamper, Marina Bernasconi Reusser, Birgit Ebersperger, and Ernst Tremp, eds., Scriptorium: Wesen, Funktion, Eigenheiten; Comité international de paléographie latine, XVIII. Kolloquium (St. Gallen 11.–14. September 2013). Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2...more
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Pani Laura. Insegnare e imparare il corsivo in Italia oggi : riflessioni di una paleografa. In: Gazette du livre médiéval, n°58. 2012, fasc. 1. pp. 17-36
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Copyright © Viella N.B: Copia ad uso personale. È vietata la riproduzione (totale o parziale) dell'opera con qualsiasi mezzo effettuata e la sua messa a disposizione di terzi, sia in forma gratuita sia a pagamento. Copyright © Viella N.B:... more
Copyright © Viella N.B: Copia ad uso personale. È vietata la riproduzione (totale o parziale) dell'opera con qualsiasi mezzo effettuata e la sua messa a disposizione di terzi, sia in forma gratuita sia a pagamento. Copyright © Viella N.B: Copia ad uso personale. È vietata la riproduzione (totale o parziale) dell'opera con qualsiasi mezzo effettuata e la sua messa a disposizione di terzi, sia in forma gratuita sia a pagamento.
This paper deals with the recent discovery of a very old Latin fragment in the binding of a 16 th century edition now kept in Tolmezzo, in NorthEastern Italy. Despite its poor preservation state, the analysis of its palaeographical... more
This paper deals with the recent discovery of a very old Latin fragment in the binding of a 16 th century edition now kept in Tolmezzo, in NorthEastern Italy. Despite its poor preservation state, the analysis of its palaeographical features and the reading of its few lines have led to the conclusion that it is a 5 th century fragment of Caius Iulius Soli-nus' Collectanea rerum memorabilium in old-style uncials, with contemporary corrections in cursive script. The most ancient codices of Solinus' work known so far dating to the 9 th century, this fragment is the only manuscript evidence of its circulation in the Late Antiquity. A copy and colla-tion with Mommsen's edition are also provided. Or is the past always there, only waiting for the person who truly wants to find it? (Justin Go, The Steady Running of the Hour) nell'ambito del progetto di censimento e catalogazione di tutti gli esem-plari di edizioni antiche, dagli incunaboli fino a metà Ottocento, conser-vati p...
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This paper investigates the activity of lay scribes of manuscripts in the High Middle Ages until the end of the eleventh century. After a survey of the scholarly literature on this topic and a review of the chances to identify lay scribes... more
This paper investigates the activity of lay scribes of manuscripts in the High Middle Ages until the
end of the eleventh century. After a survey of the scholarly literature on this topic and a review of the chances to
identify lay scribes (colophons or other explicit mentions; iconographic, literary and documentary sources; content of the manuscripts), it focuses on three manuscripts carrying a colophon by a lay scribe (MSS Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8658A and 4632; Bern, Burgerbibliothek,
Cod. 183), discussing their common features as well as the different situations and contexts they seem to refer to. The famous Law book Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731 is also discussed as a case study in which the presentation of the text offers some hints for tracing the activity of lay scribes or of scribes working in a non-ecclesiastical center of book production.
end of the eleventh century. After a survey of the scholarly literature on this topic and a review of the chances to
identify lay scribes (colophons or other explicit mentions; iconographic, literary and documentary sources; content of the manuscripts), it focuses on three manuscripts carrying a colophon by a lay scribe (MSS Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 8658A and 4632; Bern, Burgerbibliothek,
Cod. 183), discussing their common features as well as the different situations and contexts they seem to refer to. The famous Law book Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731 is also discussed as a case study in which the presentation of the text offers some hints for tracing the activity of lay scribes or of scribes working in a non-ecclesiastical center of book production.
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This paper deals with the MS 29 (70) of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Chartres, a 10th century witness of Joseph Flavius’ Antiquitates Iudaicae and Bellum Iudaicum. The manuscript was severely damaged by the fire from 1944 and 211... more
This paper deals with the MS 29 (70) of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Chartres, a 10th century witness of Joseph Flavius’ Antiquitates Iudaicae and Bellum Iudaicum. The manuscript was severely damaged by the fire from 1944 and 211 fragments of it survive in different state of conservation, out of the 245 folios that once formed the codex. The research has allowed to reestablish the correct textual sequence of the fragments, all digitized in the Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits mediévaux, describe the codicological and paleographical features of the manuscript, date it to the second half of the 10th century and make an hypotesis on its localisation between Fleury and Saint-Père of Chartres, two abbeys tightly connected from the second half of the 10th century inwards. The paper also gives some hints of the position of the manuscript in the textual transmission and investigates its relations with the MS 183 from the Burgerbibliothek of Bern.
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This paper deals with a so far little explored source on the many Black Death epidemics of the Middle Ages: the colophons of manuscripts, where the scribe refers to the plague and its evolution and impact, or focuses on the place where he... more
This paper deals with a so far little explored source on the many Black Death epidemics of the Middle Ages: the colophons of manuscripts, where the scribe refers to the plague and its evolution and impact, or focuses on the place where he finished the copy trying to escape the contagion.
Despite being still at its first stage, such a research is expected to throw new light not only on the contexts of book production, but also on the chronology of the medieval epidemics.
Despite being still at its first stage, such a research is expected to throw new light not only on the contexts of book production, but also on the chronology of the medieval epidemics.
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This paper deals with three medieval manuscripts now kept in the Diocesan Seminary Library of Concordia-Pordenone (mss. 43, 83, 84). The three codices are presented with regard to their content, paleographical and codicological features... more
This paper deals with three medieval manuscripts now kept in the Diocesan Seminary Library of Concordia-Pordenone (mss. 43, 83, 84). The three codices are presented with regard to their content, paleographical and codicological features and history. The oldest among them has shelfmark 84 and is on paleographical grounds datable between the 12th and 13th century. The other two ones are from the 15th century and both dated, that is they carry an explicit chronological data concerning the copy of the whole manuscript (ms. 83, dated 1474) or of just a part of it (ms. 43, dated 1449 on fol. 50r). Furthermore, they both contain several informations on subsequent phases of their history, thanks to owners’ names, ex libris and other notes, that are also examined in this article. The paper is concluded by a catalogue of the three manuscripts.
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This paper deals with the recently discovered Boccaccio’s autograph of Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum, the manuscript London, British Library, Harley 5383. Along with its membra disiecta Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 627 and... more
This paper deals with the recently discovered Boccaccio’s autograph of Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum, the manuscript London, British Library, Harley 5383. Along with its membra disiecta Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, 627 and 2795(VI), it forms a handbook of ancient, roman and mediaeval history (besides the Historia Langobardorum, Paul Orose’s Historiae adversus paganos, Paul the Deacon’s Historia Romana, books XIII-XVI, Pasquale Romano’s brief epistle De origine civitatis Aretii) almost entirely copied by Boccaccio.
After recalling the circumstances of its finding, the paper points out that text of Historia Langobardorum contained in Harley 5383 and in its membrum disiectum Riccard. 2795(VI) is abridged, more than the 20% of its chapters missing or being epitomized; whether Boccaccio was also the author of this version of Paul the Deacon’s work or simply its scribe remains under discussion.
After recalling the circumstances of its finding, the paper points out that text of Historia Langobardorum contained in Harley 5383 and in its membrum disiectum Riccard. 2795(VI) is abridged, more than the 20% of its chapters missing or being epitomized; whether Boccaccio was also the author of this version of Paul the Deacon’s work or simply its scribe remains under discussion.