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Du papyrus au parchemin. Les origines médiévales de la mémoire archivistique en Europe occidentale
Full text linkThe article aims at reconstructing the transition from papyrus to parchment in the documentary practices of Western Europe, in order to better understand the documentary gaps of the early Middle Ages and consequently the perspective distortions caused by the configuration of the sources. The study firstly tries to identify the production area of papyrus used in Europe, and secondly proposes a mapping of the documentary uses of papyrus and parchment from the sixth to the eleventh century. The interaction between the two types of data, as well as a qualitative and quantitative analysis, allow to propose some interpretations of the phenomenon paying particular attention to the economic exchanges throughout the Mediterranean and the relations between Western Kingdoms, Islam, and Byzantium during the early Middle Ages. Given the fragility of papyrus with respect to parchment, the phenomenon of transition from one material to another, which was substantially accomplished in the eighth and ninth century, resulted in an increased stability of the archives. For the same reason the appearance of a parchment archive within a specific area should not be considered a priori as clue of economic and cultural growth, but on the contrary it is often a result of economic restriction.Cet article a pour but de reconstituer la transition du papyrus au parchemin dans les pratiques documentaires d’Europe occidentale, pour mieux comprendre les lacunes de la documentation au haut Moyen Âge et, par suite, les distorsions de perspective causées par l’état des sources. L’étude tente d’abord d’identifier l’aire de production du papyrus utilisé en Europe, puis elle propose une cartographie de l’usage documentaire du papyrus et du parchemin du VIe au XIe siècle. Les interactions entre les deux types de données, comme les analyses qualitatives et quantitatives, permettent de proposer quelques interprétations du phénomène, en accordant une particulière attention aux échanges économiques au travers de la Méditerranée et aux relations entre royaumes occidentaux, islam et empire byzantin pendant le haut Moyen Âge. En raison de la fragilité du papyrus comparée à la résistance du parchemin, le phénomène de transition d’un matériau à l’autre – qui s’est accomplie pour l’essentiel aux VIIIe-IXe siècles – a eu pour effet une meilleure conservation des archives. Pour la même raison, l’apparition de documents de parchemin dans une aire donnée ne doit pas être considérée a priori comme l’indice d’une croissance économique et culturelle, mais, au contraire, ce peut être souvent le résultat d’une récession économique
Da Giovanni il Sanguinario a Costanziano. Rileggendo il "Papiro Butini" (P.Ital. 55)
Full text linkL'articolo discute un documento largamente noto come "Papiro Butini". Pubblicato e analizzato da importanti studiosi della cultura scritta tardoantica e medievale, il Papiro Butini è stato finora considerato come il modello "Romano" della maggior parte dei documenti di cancelleria altomedievali. Una revisione, come anche una nuova contestualizzazione, induce a proporre un'interpretazione differente: scritto a Ravenna durante gli anni 540-453, il documento è già parte del mondo post-Romano. Inoltre, è quanto di più vicino abbiamo alle epistole dei re Ostrogoti raccolte nelle Variae di Cassiodoro
Un unicum per la storia della cultura. Su un papiro latinoarabo della British Library (P.Lond. inv. 3124)
No full textITA: L’articolo offre una illustrazione delle circostanze della scoperta, nonché la prima presentazione, di un foglio papiraceo conservato presso la British Library di Londra, rimasto finora inedito. Esso reca un testo epistolare di natura privata, redatto in una scrittura latina riconducibile al periodo del cosiddetto «particolarismo grafico», verosimilmente al secolo VIII. Se la scrittura è una, le lingue utilizzate sono due, il latino e l’arabo: è quest’ultimo il motivo per il quale tale manoscritto costituisce una testimonianza assai preziosa e unica nel suo genere sull’interazione tra la cultura latina e quella araba nel Mediterraneo altomedievale. / ENG: The article provides an illustration of the circumstances of the discovery, as well as the first introduction, of a papyrus sheet preserved at the British Library, so far unpublished. The papyrus bears an epistolary text of a private nature, drawn up in a Latin script attributable to the period of the so-called « graphic particularism », most likely to the eight century. The script is only one, but the languages used are two, Latin and Arabic: this is the matter for which this manuscript is very valuable and one of a kind, and furnishes particular evidence for the interaction between Latin culture and Arabic culture in the early medieval Mediterranean
P. Vindob. L 17 identificato: Cicero, In Catilinam I, 14-15 + 27
No full textEdizione e contestualizzazione di un manoscritto inedito contenente una sezione delle Catilinarie di Cicerone
Alessandro IV, la sua famiglia, Jenne. Per un inquadramento storico e culturale (secoli XI-XIII)
Full text linkBasato su uno scavo archivistico dei fondi di Subiaco, il lavoro ripercorre la storia della famiglia di papa Alessandro IV (1254-1261) dai suoi capostipiti nel secolo XI fino agli inizi del Trecento, ponendo il focus sugli aspetti sociali e culturali. In seconda battuta si sofferma su Jenne, luogo d'origine del papa, riflettendo in particolare sui rapporti che legano il castello e i suoi abitanti da una parte ai monasteri di Subiaco, dall'altra alla famiglia del papa
The Revival of Cassiodorus’ Variae in the High Middle Ages (10th-11th Century)
Full text linkThis paper is based on a number of reuses of Cassiodorus’ Variae that have been found in notarial documents written in Rome and Lazio between the tenth and eleventh century. Given that the manuscript tradition of the Variae becomes visible only from the twelfth-thirteenth centuries onwards, these reuses are a good starting point to reflect on a specific question: what were the practical and contingent motivations that, in Lazio, stimulated the intellectual elites to research and reuse the Variae? By following an alternative path to that of the manuscript evidence, it is thus possible better to identify the contexts of preservation, circulation, and practical use of the Variae underlying the more evident late medieval revival
Latin Documents written on Papyrus in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West (5th-11th Century): an Overview
Full text linkL'articolo offre una ricognizione ragionata di tutti i documenti scritti su papiro nell'Occidente tardoantico e altomedievale pervenuti fino a oggi. I documenti sono divisi secondo due grandi categorie basate sulla macroarea di scrittura, più una terza categoria di manoscritti ancora inediti o particolarmente problematici: 1) papiri italiani; 2) papiri francesi; 3) papiri non pubblicati. Le prime due categorie sono divise in ulteriori sottogruppi basati sulle tipologie documentarie. La sezione finale esplora le fonti indirette e gli studi più recenti sull'uso del papiro nell'Occidente medievale per discutere, in forma preliminare, la circolazione del papiro nel Mediterraneo, dall'Egitto all'Occidente, durante l'alto Medioevo.The article offers an overview of all extant Latin documents written on papyrus in late antique and early medieval West. They are divided into two broad categories based on the main macroareas of writing, plus a third category of some still-unpublished or particularly problematic manuscripts: 1) Italian papyri; 2) French papyri; 3) unpublished papyri. The first two categories are further divided into subgroups, taking into account documentary typologies. The final section explores indirect evidence and the most recent studies about the use of papyrus in the medieval West in order to discuss, in a preliminary form, the circulation of papyrus in the Mediterranean Sea, from Egypt to the West, during the early Middle Ages
Caratteristiche cancelleresche dei papiri di Avito (PAR. LAT. 8913+8914)*
No full textThe article analyzes the Avitus’ papyri (Par. lat. 8913+8914) from a particular point of view, that one of the palaeographical chancery features. After a terminological explanation, a discussion about the typologies of the chancery features follows, with an exemplifying illustration of the historical changes of Latin chancery writings from the third to the sicth century AD. A palaeographical comparison between Avitus’ fragments and two coeval public documents comes after: P.Ital. 55 and P.Ital. 4-5. The presence of similar chancery features suggests that the Avitus’ fragments, first evidence of the Merovingian script, were written from the same official clerks that produced public documents in the archiepiscopal chancery of Vienne. Therefore the Merovingian script, in its first phase, never exited chancery entourages
Cicerone latinogreco. Corpus dei papiri bilingui delle Catilinarie di Cicerone
Full text linkThe article contains a revised edition of the four greek word-lists to Cicero’s Catilinarians: PVindob g 30885 a+e, PRyl 61, PVindob l 127 and PSI inv. 2876. These papyrus codices were produced in the Roman pars orientis of the late Antiquity and were thought for the natives of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire who wanted to study latin language and Roman law, with the purpose to make a career in the Roman bureaucracy
Un episodio culturale nel tardo Duecento: Simone da Genova e i papiri di Roma1
Full text linkStarting from an episode that has the physician Simon of Genoa as protagonist and Rome as its backdrop, the article discusses the presence of Latin papyri in the mo- nasteries of the City between the 13th and the 14th century. This presence could be considered as part of the city’s intellectual landscape
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