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B020982 - PALAEOGRAPHY
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Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2018 - Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-STO/09 - PALEOGRAPHY
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
24/02/2020 ⇒ 05/06/2020
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B020982 - PALEOGRAFIA
Second Cycle Degree in ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
B020982 - PALEOGRAFIA
Second Cycle Degree in ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course consists of two modules (36 hours, 6 CFU each) of which the first is preparatory to the second:
1) general palaeography (definitions, tools of palaeographical analysis, abbreviations, transcription principles), history of scripts, 12th-15th c. (books and documents), basic codicology (writing materials, making and shaping of the manuscript, principles of description)
2) specific topic: scripts and books of merchants (13th-15th c.), with practical exercises
1) general palaeography (definitions, tools of palaeographical analysis, abbreviations, transcription principles), history of scripts, 12th-15th c. (books and documents), basic codicology (writing materials, making and shaping of the manuscript, principles of description)
2) specific topic: scripts and books of merchants (13th-15th c.), with practical exercises
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
During the first weeks of the course students are required to read:
J. Mallon, Paléographie romaine, Madrid 1952, pp. 21-29
B. Bischoff, Paleografia latina, Padova, Antenore 1992, pp. 7-52 (Materiali e strumenti scrittori)
T. De Robertis, Questioni preliminari e generali, «Medioevo e Rinascimento», 7 (1993), pp. 161-193 (in particolare 167-174)
Further bibliography on specific topics will be distributed during the course.
J. Mallon, Paléographie romaine, Madrid 1952, pp. 21-29
B. Bischoff, Paleografia latina, Padova, Antenore 1992, pp. 7-52 (Materiali e strumenti scrittori)
T. De Robertis, Questioni preliminari e generali, «Medioevo e Rinascimento», 7 (1993), pp. 161-193 (in particolare 167-174)
Further bibliography on specific topics will be distributed during the course.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide students with the conceptual and lexical tools of palaeographical and codicological work and presents the main stages of the history of script and of the book in the Latin West from the 12th to the 15th century. Skills acquired in the first module will be refined in the second module and put into practice with the study of a specific theme.
Prerequisites
Very good knowledge of written and spoken Italian. Knowledge of Medieval and Renaissance history and cultural history. Basic knowledge of Latin.
Teaching Methods
72 hours of theorethical and practical lessons (36 for each module). Students need to download from Moodle all the teaching materials (facsimiles, transcriptions, bibliography etc.). In consideration of the practical nature of the course students are advised to actively participate and to attend at least 15 lessons out of 18 of each module.
Further information
NO
Type of Assessment
Written tests and oral exam.
Course program
The course consists of two modules (36 hours, 6 CFU each) of which the first is preparatory to the second:
1) general palaeography (definitions, tools of palaeographical analysis, abbreviations, transcription principles), history of scripts, 12th-15th c. (books and documents), basic codicology (writing materials, making and shaping of the manuscript, principles of description)
2) specific topic: scripts and books of merchants (13th-15th c.), with practical exercises
1) general palaeography (definitions, tools of palaeographical analysis, abbreviations, transcription principles), history of scripts, 12th-15th c. (books and documents), basic codicology (writing materials, making and shaping of the manuscript, principles of description)
2) specific topic: scripts and books of merchants (13th-15th c.), with practical exercises