Textual and Material Craftmanship:
What does copying a manuscript mean?
Naples, 6-8 October 2016
October 6
University L'Orientale,
Palazzo Du Mesnil
via Partenope, 10/A ­ Napoli
A workshop co-organized by the
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Universität Hamburg
and the
Dipartimento Asia Africa Mediterraneo
Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale
9:15­9:30: Introduction
Panel: TERMINOLOGY
9:30­12:40
Gian Pietro Basello (UniOr)
«The Persian Boys who are Copying Texts»: Copying
Achaemenid Administrative Documents and Royal
Inscriptions (ca. 500 BCE)
Pietro De Laurentiis (UniOr)
Transcribing and Inscribing. The World of Hand­Writing in
Mediaeval China
Wiebke Beyer (SFB 950/CSMC) Copying and Inventorying: The Term Mehrum in Old Assyrian
Texts
Vito Lorusso (SFB 950/CSMC)
Copying Philosophical Manuscripts as a Practice for
Transmitting Knowledge
Panel: INSTITUTIONS AND AUTHORITIES (14:00­17:10)
Thies Staack (SFB 933)
Copying Authority: On the Distribution and Compilation of
Imperial Decrees in the Early Chinese Empires
(221 BCE – 220 CE)
Florinda De Simini (UniOr)
Manuscript Production and Monarchical Authority
in Early India: The Case of Śaivism
Annachiara Raia (UniOr) On How the Academic Understanding of Swahili Poetry
Shaped Practices of Manuscript Writing and Copying at the
Swahili Coast
Noemi Borrelli (UniOr) Shaping Tablets, Shaping Knowledge: The Mesopotamian
Scribal Tradition between Content and Context
October 7
University L'Orientale,
Palazzo Du Mesnil
via Partenope, 10/A ­ Napoli
Panel: PRODUCTION
AND REPRODUCTION
(9:30­12:40)
Giovanni Ciotti (SFB 950/CSMC)
Sidegrading the ‘Tamil’ Vi ṣṇ upurā ṇ am
Michael Kohs (SFB 950/CSMC) Between Tora and Magic – Copying in Jewish Manuscript
Culture
Cornelius Berthold (SFB 950/CSMC) Tracing the Imperfect: UB Leipzig ms. or. 377 as a Guide to
Islamicate Copying Conventions
Antonella Brita (SFB 950/CSMC)
Scribes at Work in Ancient and Contemporary Ethiopia Panel: COPYING MANUSCRIPTS IN MULTILINGUAL
ENVIRONMENTS (14:00­16:00)
Gianfrancesco Lusini (UniOr)
Scribes and Scholars of Mediaeval Ethiopia
Dorota Hartman (UniOr)
«Verified exact copytexts» (P.Yadin 12): Scribes and
Copying in the Documentary Papyri of the Judaean Desert
Luigi Orlandi (SFB 950/CSMC)
Copying Greek in Latin­speaking Medieval Contexts: The
Manuscripts of Macrobius’ Saturnalia
Panel: COPYING AND SCHOLARSHIP (16:30­18:30)
Stefano Valente (SFB 950/CSMC)
Copying for Teaching, Copying for Learning: On Some
Renaissance­Manuscripts of the Compendium on Physics by
Nikephoros Blemmydes
Victor D’Avella (CSMC/NETamil) Copying into Print: The End of the Tolkāppiyam Manuscript
Tradition
Monica Scotti (UniOr) Islamic Manuscripts: The Ismaili case
October 8
Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli
Piazza del Plebiscito, 1
9:00­9:15 Introduction
Panel: Case Studies from the Manuscript Collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli (9:15­11:15)
Amneris Roselli (UniOr) Image and Text: The Naples Dioscorides and Other Illustrated Books
Antonio Rollo (UniOr) 'Fossil Script’ in the Greek and the Latin Middle Ages
Gianluca Del Mastro (UniNa) Writing and Copying Philosophical Texts: The Parádosis of Ancient Philosophy in the
Herculaneum Papyri
11:40 Exhibition of the Manuscript Collections of the Library