Mutual Benefits of Combining Codicological and Textual Approach
in Manuscript Studies

k 2021

Mutual Benefits of Combining Codicological and Textual Approach in Manuscript Studies

DIVIZIA, Paolo

Basic information

Original name

Mutual Benefits of Combining Codicological and Textual Approach in Manuscript Studies

Authors

DIVIZIA, Paolo

Edition

Romance, Epic and Hagiography in Medieval Multi-Text Manuscripts, 2021

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

full programme of the conference

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

texts and transmission; manuscripts; multi-text manuscripts; codicology; European literature

Abstract

V originále

A manuscript, and even more a multi-text manuscript, is a complex entity consisting of a physical component (the manuscript as a codex or a compound of more codices or codicological units) and an intangible one (the manuscript as a witness to one ore more texts), which intertwine a history (the object, produced to bear one or more texts, might have not always been like we know it today) and a tradition (the texts come from one or more models which were physical, in turn). Whatever the main focus and purpose, codicological or textual, of studying one or more manuscripts, the other approach cannot be overlooked, if not at risk of terrible blunders. Thus the textual scholar will have to consider his witness as a structural object with its own history, change and damage over time; while the codicologist will have to consider his codex as a text-bearing cultural artefact which, unless it is an authograph, has one or more models behind. Through a few case studies, the talk will deal with concepts like the moment in which a textual cluster is born, misbinding and other sorts of confusion, damage over time, codicological material evidence vs. diachronic approach in textual criticism, textual units of transmission and, most of all, the need of a multidisciplinary approach in manuscript studies.

Links

MUNI/FF-DEAN/0108/2021, interní kód MU

Name: The Medieval French translations (XIV-XVI century) of the Fiore di virtù, anonymous moral treatise written in Bologna, circa 1313-1323

Investor: Masaryk University, FA Dean's program

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DIVIZIA, Paolo. Mutual Benefits of Combining Codicological and Textual Approach in Manuscript Studies. In Romance, Epic and Hagiography in Medieval Multi-Text Manuscripts. 2021.

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