TY - JOUR
T1 - Jean Matal and His Annotated Copy of the Epigrammata Antiquae Vrbis (Vat. Lat. 8495)
T2 - The Use of Manuscript Sources
AU - Carbonell Manils, Joan
AU - Gonzalez Germain, Gerard
N1 - Funding information:
This paper is presented as part of the Project Repercusiones del hábito epigráfico tardoantiguo en la epigrafía hispánica posterior. Estudio de los procesos de imitación y falsificación: un caso de interacción entre filología y epigrafía (HAR2009-12932-C02-02), funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.
PY - 2013/4/15
Y1 - 2013/4/15
N2 - Among the different copies of the Epigrammata Antiquae Vrbis (1521) published by J. Mazochius and abundantly annotated by 16th century humanists, Jean Matal's (ms. Vat. Lat. 8495) is undoubtedly the one that reveals the clearest objectives and the most systematic work method. The importance of Matal's efforts, as well as those of his many informants, to correct the inscriptions based on their autopsy has already been highlighted. However, his study of several manuscript sources, to which he also compared the printed texts, has remained largely unnoticed. In this paper we progress in the identification of these manuscript sources and we analyse the work method developed by Matal, for which he deserves to be considered not only one of the forerunners of epigraphical science, but also the initiator of the use of philological tools in the edition of epigraphic texts.
AB - Among the different copies of the Epigrammata Antiquae Vrbis (1521) published by J. Mazochius and abundantly annotated by 16th century humanists, Jean Matal's (ms. Vat. Lat. 8495) is undoubtedly the one that reveals the clearest objectives and the most systematic work method. The importance of Matal's efforts, as well as those of his many informants, to correct the inscriptions based on their autopsy has already been highlighted. However, his study of several manuscript sources, to which he also compared the printed texts, has remained largely unnoticed. In this paper we progress in the identification of these manuscript sources and we analyse the work method developed by Matal, for which he deserves to be considered not only one of the forerunners of epigraphical science, but also the initiator of the use of philological tools in the edition of epigraphic texts.
UR - https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/Veleia/article/download/8917/10340/42444
UR - https://ddd.uab.cat/record/238898
U2 - 10.1387/veleia.8917
DO - 10.1387/veleia.8917
M3 - Article
SN - 0213-2095
VL - 29
SP - 149
EP - 168
JO - Veleia
JF - Veleia
ER -