I am Full Professor in Latin Palaeography at the University of, where I entered in 1994 as a lecturer. I have been the module coordinator for a range of modules on Palaeography, Codicology and Diplomatics for the ex Faculty of Humanities (Lettere e Filosofia), which is now divided into different Bachelor- and MA degree courses.
I am working on the history of latin handwriting in the Middle Ages, on manuscript traditions and on the edition of documentary sources.
My research activity has been focused for a long time on High Middle Ages: I have worked on the manuscript tradition of Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum and more generally I studied northern Italian carolingian manuscripts, with particular emphasis to north-eastern writing centers.
I was also involved in describing and cataloguing manuscripts.
More recently I have approached the Low Middle Ages, with regard to history of both handwriting and documents.
I regularly attended the meetings of the Permanent International Workshop on Cursive Handwriting established in 2006, and I have studied the writing of Cividale notaries in the XIIIth century and the methods of teaching and learning cursive handwriting in Italian schools during the XIXth and XXth centuries.
At the end of 2012 I discovered that the manuscript London, British Library, Harley 5383, a rather obscure XIVth century copy of Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum, is the missing part of the manuscript 627 + 2795(VI) in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence, and is therefore entirely autograph by Giovanni Boccaccio. This discovery, also enhanced by the italian press, allowed me to work further on Boccaccio’s handwriting, books and library.
I am the Editor in Chief of 'Scrineum Rivista', President of the Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti and a member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique (CID), the Association Paléographique Internationale Écriture - Culture - Sociéte (APICES), the Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati (AIMD).
Address: Dipartimento di Studi umanistici e del Patrimonio culturale
Università degli Studi di Udine
vicolo Florio, 2b
33100 UDINE
ITALY
I am working on the history of latin handwriting in the Middle Ages, on manuscript traditions and on the edition of documentary sources.
My research activity has been focused for a long time on High Middle Ages: I have worked on the manuscript tradition of Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum and more generally I studied northern Italian carolingian manuscripts, with particular emphasis to north-eastern writing centers.
I was also involved in describing and cataloguing manuscripts.
More recently I have approached the Low Middle Ages, with regard to history of both handwriting and documents.
I regularly attended the meetings of the Permanent International Workshop on Cursive Handwriting established in 2006, and I have studied the writing of Cividale notaries in the XIIIth century and the methods of teaching and learning cursive handwriting in Italian schools during the XIXth and XXth centuries.
At the end of 2012 I discovered that the manuscript London, British Library, Harley 5383, a rather obscure XIVth century copy of Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum, is the missing part of the manuscript 627 + 2795(VI) in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence, and is therefore entirely autograph by Giovanni Boccaccio. This discovery, also enhanced by the italian press, allowed me to work further on Boccaccio’s handwriting, books and library.
I am the Editor in Chief of 'Scrineum Rivista', President of the Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti and a member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique (CID), the Association Paléographique Internationale Écriture - Culture - Sociéte (APICES), the Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati (AIMD).
Address: Dipartimento di Studi umanistici e del Patrimonio culturale
Università degli Studi di Udine
vicolo Florio, 2b
33100 UDINE
ITALY
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This scribal phenomenon, which mainly concerns manuscripts from the 14th to the first half of the 16th century, has been the subject of special catalogues since the 1950s, that primarily focus on paleography and codicology.
In fact, the corpus of dated manuscripts offers researchers an extraordinary and still largely unexplored trove of data for endless and multiple investigations, covering many fields of Renaissance studies and encouraging diverse interdisciplinary research. The contributions presented in this panel are just a few examples of the possibilities.
The first paper will deal with manuscripts in which the date (usually year, month, day) is accompanied by a reference to the time of the day when the copy was finished, made explicit according to the different systems for measuring time adopted in late medieval Europe, and thus suggesting information on the daily copying rates of scribes.
The second paper, which investigates the appearance and meaning of instruments for measuring time depicted in iconographic sources, will make it possible to cross-reference data in manuscripts from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The third paper will focus on the specific category of copyists-illuminators, as they described themselves in the colophons – either famous first-rate artistic personalities or rather obscure figures –, the circumstances of their work and its outcome in terms of page layout, and graphic and decorative choices.
udinesi bassomedievali: quella dei Fabbri e quella degli Alemanni.
I manoscritti editi rappresentano ognuno a modo suo la
storia e la compagine sociale dei sodalizi che li allestirono e vi
annotarono i nomi dei propri defunti.
Fondata all’inizio del Trecento nel nome di san Nicolò e con intenti
prettamente caritativi e assistenziali, la fraterna dei Fabbri
si dotò di un obituario già alla metà del secolo, utilizzandolo in
un arco di tempo esteso fino ai primi decenni del Cinquecento.
Della seconda metà del Quattrocento, e con più rade annotazioni
riferibili a meno di un cinquantennio, è invece l’obituario della
fraterna, di carattere etnico, degli Alemanni.
Le edizioni dei due documenti sono precedute da altrettanti studi
introduttivi che, in consonanza con gli interessi e le competenze
delle due autrici (Laura Pani per i Fabbri e Vittoria Masutti
per gli Alemanni) si soffermano rispettivamente sugli aspetti paleografici
del primo manoscritto, e dunque sulla cultura grafica
di coloro i quali in quasi due secoli vi registrarono obiti e lasciti,
e su presenza e ruolo dei cittadini stranieri nel tessuto storico e
sociale della Udine tre- e quattrocentesca.
Dipartimento di Studi Storici (Università di Torino)
Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (CNRS - Paris)
Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino
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Torino, 18 gennaio 2019
Auditorium Vivaldi - Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino
Piazza Carlo Alberto, 5
“Tres digiti scribunt totum corpus laborat”, tre dita scrivono e tutto il corpo si affatica. Il lavoro e la fatica degli scriventi verranno ricostruiti grazie alle fonti manoscritte e iconografiche da Laura Pani, paleografa, che percorrerà la storia della scrittura a mano osservata dalla prospettiva ‘professionale’ dei copisti medievali.
Per partecipare sarà necessario pre-iscriversi entro il 3 dicembre alle ore 12.00 (il link Zoom sarà inviato un'ora prima dell'inizio dell'evento).
Sarà inoltre possibile seguire la conferenza in streaming Youtube.
Ulteriori informazioni alla pagina Eventi dell'Università di Trento: https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/lettere/85473/discorsi-sulla-scrittura