DESCRIPTION AND CATALOGUING OF MANUSCRIPTS
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- SANDRO BERTELLI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- M-STO/09
Training objectives
- The course deals with the study of the physical aspects and the manufacturing phases of the handwritten book. Questions related to the description of manuscripts will be examined through the examination of the criteria of modern scientific book-cataloguing.
Students will acquire a specialist knowledge suitable for research in human studies, as well as for highly professional working purposes, such as the librarian or the archivist. Prerequisites
- It is advisable (but not necessary) to have attended at least one Paleography course.
Course programme
- The course is divided in two major parts: in the first one, students will achieve the basic elements of codicology, that will be useful to illustration and description of the materials and the phases of manufacturing the handwritten book; in the second one, students will achieve elements concerning cataloguing, with the aim of examining the criteria of making a descriptive file card of a manuscript and the making of the card same. In this second part, seminars in library will be provided.
The course is intended mostly to the study of Dante’s manuscripts. By the end of the course, each student will be required to give her/his own work exercise (previously agreed with the teacher, according with the interests of the single student and her/his own needs). Didactic methods
- Frontal lessons, seminars on the manuscripts.
Lectures will be recorded and archived on the FAD-Se @ platform. Learning assessment procedures
- Oral examination. The exam will start with the discussion and revision of the description of a manuscript written by the student; will continue with the verification of the concepts learned during the course.
Reference texts
- Notes and textbooks:
• M.L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto. Introduzione alla Codicologia, Roma, L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2003;
• A. Petrucci, La descrizione del manoscritto. Storia, problemi, modelli, Roma, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1995 (terza ed.);
• E. Casamassima, Note sul metodo della descrizione dei codici, in Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato, XXIII, N. 2 (maggio-agosto), 1963, pp. 181-205;
• T. De Robertis e altri (a cura di), Norme per i collaboratori dei Manoscritti datati d’Italia. Seconda edizione rivista e ampliata, Padova, Cleup, 2007;
• S. Bertelli, La tradizione della Commedia: dai manoscritti al testo. I. I codici trecenteschi (entro l’antica vulgata) conservati a Firenze, Firenze, L.S. Olschki, 2011;
• S. Bertelli, La tradizione della «Commedia»: dai manoscritti al testo. II. I codici trecenteschi (oltre l'antica vulgata) conservati a Firenze, Firenze, L.S. Olschki, 2016.
• M. Maniaci, Terminologia del libro manoscritto, Roma-Milano 1996.
N.B.
The exam program for non-attending students must be agreed with the teacher.
