Research Catalog

Title

I libri dei papi : la Curia, il Laterano e la produzione manoscritta ad uso del papato nel Medioevo (secoli VI-XIII) / Maria Alessandra Bilotta.

Author

Bilotta, Maria Alessandra.

Publication

Città del Vaticano : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 2011.

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Details

Description

xxxii, 284 p., [64] p. of plates : facsims. (chiefly col.); 26 cm.

Summary

"The book focuses on the historical and art-historical manuscripts made use of the Papal Curia and the Lateran from the sixth to the thirteenth century. The research covers three main areas: the delineation of the ways that, in the central Middle Ages, led to the establishment and development of a writing activity and conservation within the papal library, the systematic identification of specimens surviving manuscripts, witness of this activity, the analysis of the specimens themselves, conducted through different methodological approaches (historical, artistic, palaeography, codicological, philological, liturgical, etc.). It returns, in this way, a very significant aspect, and so far little explored as a whole, the history of medieval miniature, thanks also to the reunification, conducted in this work for the first time, to what survives of manuscript production, in particular Hind, linked to the Lateran and the Papal Curia."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Studi e testi ; 465

Uniform Title

Studi e testi (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana) 465.

Subject

• Catholic Church. Curia Romana > History
• To 1400
• Medeltiden
• Popes > Books and reading > History
• Scriptoria > Italy > Rome > History
• Manuscripts, Medieval > Italy > Rome > History
• Libraries > History > 400-1400
• Libraries > Italy > Rome > History
• Papacy > History > To 1309

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Università di Pisa, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-270) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9788821008740
• 8821008746

OCLC

• 746965470
• SCSB-12806718

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library