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The Places of Coptic Literary Manuscripts: Real and Imaginary Landscapes. Theoretical Reflections in Guise of Introduction
No full textCoptic literary manuscripts – and therefore also the works contained in them – have been created, manufactured, exchanged, stored, and discovered in physical places. The majority of these places are a re-occupation of older ones. Cells, churches, basilicas, monasteries, and even villages were very often built inside the temples or their temene, re-using and taking advantage of their walls and internal subdivisions, and only in some cases involved partial or complete destruction. The well-known monk Frange, who was involved in several activities related to book production, chose as dwelling a pharaonic tomb, and lived in surroundings that were much more crowded than one might have imagined for a ‘hermit’, as the cells of other monks located only a very short distance from his dwelling. This state of affairs tells much about the modes of book production and circulation of culture in Christian Egypt. This article – that also represents an introduction to the volume – aims to demonstrate that, when one wants to reconstruct the manuscript tradition of Christian Egypt, an investigation of the archaeological context is essential. In fact, in extreme cases, when manuscripts and texts have not survived, it is precisely the careful analysis of the geo-archaeological contexts that enables the reconstruction of a cultural landscape, a landscape where books were certainly produced but that fate did not preserve
From Bernardino Drovetti's Collection to Amedeo Peyron's Classification. The Coptic Literary Codices Held in the Museo Egizio: An Overview
No full textThe remains of more than twenty papyrus codices are housed in the Museo Egizio’s papyrus storeroom largely under the shelf mark CGT 63000.
They all almost certainly belong to the same ancient library, which, on the basis of internal elements (content, titles, selection and combination of texts) and external clues (codicological and palaeographic features), can convincingly be dated to the late 7th or early 8th century. The single leaves—bifolii that were cut into two when the manuscripts entered the museum—are kept
under glass, normally labelled to indicate their sequence within the codex.
This article describes their provenace and history
Da Nj-MAat-Ra a Premarres fino a Poimandres: l’inarrestabile ascesa divina di Amenemhat III, dio primordiale, nume tutelare e intelletto supremo. Status quaestionis e nuove prospettive di ricerca
Full text linkThere are not many sovereigns who have enjoyed a cult that has lasted for more than two millennia.
Among these stands Amenemhat III, protagonist of a real divine career, which began when he was still alive, mortal in his person, immortal in his royalty. From sovereign to primordial god, to tutelary deity of the Fayyum, up to “supreme intellect”, Amenemhat III demonstrates, like no other, how the memory of the pharaonic past, regenerating itself through the filter of Hellenism, can be perpetuated up to the
early Christian age. This short article aims to take stock of this historical-religious phenomenon, in its complete diachrony and considering what its reference context, the Fayyum, can still reveal
The Coptic Codices of the Museo Egizio, Turin. Historical, Literary, and Codicological Feature
No full textThe Coptic codices of the Museo Egizio provide an exceptional occasion for reconstructing the consistency of an ancient monastic library, as well as for documenting Late Antique Egypt’s narrative preferences, literary interests, and theological orientations. At the same time, they are a valuable witness to the history of the ancient book in its evolving intellectual, material, and technological aspects.
This volume, edited by Paola Buzi and Tito Orlandi, aims to guide readers – both specialists in this field and those who are simply interested in the cultural phenomena of Christian Egypt – through the Museo Egizio’s collection of Coptic literary manuscripts, particularly the papyrus codices from This (the well-known “capital” of the Protodynastic Period, located not far from Abydos), which the museum acquired in the 1820s from Bernardino Drovetti.
The volume is divided into two sections. The first section outlines the history of studies of these Coptic manuscripts since they reached Turin, their literary content, and their place in the broader context of Coptic literary production (Paola Buzi and Tito Orlandi). While the papyrus codices from This (Nathan Carlig) are the focus of this volume, there is also a chapter dedicated to a parchment codex of unknown provenance and biblical content, which Drovetti also purchased in Egypt (Francesco Valerio). Lastly, the bookbindings housed in the papyrus storeroom which are very likely detached from the papyrus codices, are analysed for the first time herein (Eliana Dal Sasso).
The second section is of a more technical nature and contains a detailed codicological description of the bookbindings (Eliana Dal Sasso) and papyrus codices, which led to the reconsideration of the codicological units’ composition in some cases (Nathan Carlig).
The content of both sections of the volume is based on accurate autoptical analysis and, in some cases, archaeometric measurements of the inks, in addition to the necessary literary and historical reflection.
This volume is one of the scientific outcomes of the ERC Advanced Grant PAThs–“Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context: Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination, and Storage”, 3 funded by the European Research Council, Horizon 2020 programme, project no. 687567, hosted by Sapienza Università di Roma and directed by Paola Buzi (paths.uniroma1.it), and of the CMCL enterprise – “Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari” – founded and directed by Tito Orlandi (cmcl.it)
Aegyptiaca et Coptica. Studi in onore di Sergio Pernigotti
No full textPubblicazione di studi di egittologi e coptologi stranieri e italiani dedicati a Sergio Pernigott
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Il progetto italo-egiziano di studio e conservazione del "Monastero di Abba Nefer" a Manqabad (Asyut)
No full textReport sui principali risultati della prima campagna di lavoro a Manqabad, presso il monastero di Abba NeferReport of the main results of the first archaeological campaign at Manqabad, in the monastery of Abba Nefe
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