Teaching Workshop: Palaeography and Text Transmission in Latin Script

The teaching workshop aims to introduce students to the direct reading of manuscripts in Latin writing, in which the literary production, both Latin (classical, medieval and humanistic), and in the various vernacular languages of Western Europe was transmitted until the invention of the printing press. The aim is also to address the critical interpretation of the phenomena found in a manuscript, both in textual and codicological terms.

Essential knowledge of the history of Latin writings and their own abbreviated system. Ability to distinguish and interpret the main classical and medieval Latin writings. Ability to critically evaluate the material aspect of a manuscript and the phenomena related to the transcription of texts (mechanisms of genesis of palaeographic errors, corrections, subscriptions...).