A Roundtable on Manuscripts Studies
S. Giovanni in Monte, 2 - Aula Gambi
Wednesday, November 20th
Over the last two decades, manuscript studies have known a renewed and sustained interest. This includes a deep methodological rethinking that has fully incorporated both the comparative approach as well as a programmatic effort in integrating the contributions from the humanities, natural sciences and information sciences.
Prof Michael Friedrich, founder of the Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) of the
University of Hamburg, is a visiting fellow of the MemoryLab of the department of History and Culture
(DISCI) of the University of Bologna in November 2024. His visit will offer the chance to take stock of some of the current research on manuscript studies at DISCI as well as across the University of Bologna.
Participants will discuss their past, present and future research interest and activities. Some of the key
ideas that will be discussed are:
- Manuscripts as tools/agents of memory
- Paratexts / Paracontents
- Layout
- Composite manuscripts, Multiple-text manuscripts
- Interaction between manuscripts and other media
- The formation of manuscript collections
- The role of manuscript studies in the shaping of philological, historiogrpahical and ethnographic methods
Programme
09.45–10.00 Welcome and Introduction
10.00–10.30 Michael Friedrich
Why Manuscript Studies? On the Anthropological Dimension of the Cultural Practice of Writing
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–12.00 Emma Abate & Saverio Campanini
The Formation of Hebrew Books Collections: Case Studies
12.00–13.00 Giovanni Ciotti & Marco Franceschini
From Colophons to Material Analysis: A
Comprehensive Approach to the Study of Palm Leaf Manuscripts from Tamil Nadu
13.00–14.00 Lunch break
14.00–15.30
Lucia Raggetti
The Library of Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr: Galenic Medicine and Quaint Erudition
Sara Fani
Second Chances: Ink Production and Removal According to Recipes from the Arab World.
Celeste Gianni
Retracing Family Histories from the Ownership and Marginal Notes in the Arabic Manuscripts of the
Great ʿUmari Mosque in Gaza
15.30–16.00 Coffee break
16.00–17.30
Giulio Iovine
Papyrology: Writing books and Documents in the Graeco-Roman Era
Giacomo Vignodelli
INTRADAMS: A Research-Based Summer School for the Integration of Traditional and Digital
Approaches in Manuscript Studies
Anna Sirinian
The Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts as “Places of Memory”
Attività valida per il conseguimento dei CFU seminari per il Corso di Laurea in Antropologia, religioni, civiltà orientali.
referente: prof. Giovanni Ciotti