PALEOGRAPHY AND CODICOLOGY

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Specific objectives:

Knowledge of the essential elements of paleography from the archaic age to the late ancient and early medieval age. Knowledge of the scripture, and the documents of different nature.

Knowledge of the essential elements of the history of ancient book and its evolution: volumen and codex.

Knowledge of the methodology and use of papyri, tablets, ostraka, inscriptions, for the reconstruction of political history, social, economic and cultural of ancient Rome.

Papyrology and historical development, documentaries papyri. The alphabetical scriptures. Scriptures. Other materials. The ancient book.

P. Cherubini – A. Pratesi, Paleografia latina. L’avventura grafica del mondo occidentale, Città del Vaticano, 2010, pp. 1-514.

G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina. Un’introduzione, F. Serra Editore, Pisa/Roma, 2008, pp. 1-190.

L. Canfora, Il copista come autore, Sellerio Editore, Palermo 2019, pp. 1-179.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).