PALAEOGRAPHY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- SANDRO BERTELLI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- M-STO/09
Training objectives
- The course aims to give the basic knowledge of the scientific analysis of the latin scripts in different periods and to offer to the students some examples of the application of the palaeographical method to the script evidences (from the origins to the ninth century).
Prerequisites
- It is advisable to have a basic knowledge both of the European history and culture form the Roman ancient period to the Humanism and of the Latin. For foreign students: good skills to read and speak Italian.
Course programme
- The course introduces the student to the scientific analysis of the Latin script.
The following subjects will be examined:
History and definition of the Latin palaeography. Principles and methods of the palaeographical analysis: the shape, the form, the ductus, the angle of script, the hatching. The ligatures and the bonds. Capital and minuscule script. The principal handwriting materials. The handwriting means. The code and his shape. Techniques of the script: librarian and Italic scripts. Description and historical development of the Latin abbreviation system (acronyms, apocopes, notae tironianae etc.). The course will present a concise overview of the Latin scripts from the late ancient period to the IXth century, with the analysis and commentary of reproduced manuscripts. Didactic methods
- Oral lessons, with the projection of images in Power Point and the comment and analysis of reproductions of Latin manuscripts.
Lectures will be recorded and archived on the FAD-Se @ platform. Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam with possible reading test of the tables distributed in class and / or uploaded on the teacher's website.
Reference texts
- Lesson notes. Textbooks: B. Bischoff, "Paleografia latina. Antichità e Medioevo", ed. it. a cura di G.P. Mantovani e S. Zamponi, Padova, Antenore, 1992; P. Cherubini-A. Pratesi, "Paleografia latina. L'avventura grafica del mondo occidentale", Città del Vaticano, Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia Diplomatica e Archivistica, 2010. It's recommended the reading of: E.A. Lowe, "Codices Latini Antiquiores", vol. I-XI, Oxford 1934-1966; or: F. Steffens, "Paléographie latine", ed. francese a cura di R. Coulon, Trèves-Paris, 1910 (rist. anast. Roma 1982). For the abbreviations, it is recommended: A. Cappelli, "Dizionario di abbreviature latine e italiane", Milano, Hoepli, 1949 (rist. 1990).
N.B.
The exam program for non-attending students must be agreed with the teacher.
