Descrizione del progetto
Una nuova vita digitale per gli studi di grammatica antichi
Tra le opere di grande importanza per il patrimonio europeo, l’Ars grammatica di Prisciano di Cesarea occupa un posto speciale. Si tratta, infatti, dell’ultima opera dell’antichità sulla lingua latina e comprende molti passaggi di testi antichi perduti in greco. L’Ars grammatica è stata di stimolo per gli studi linguistici europei e nel corso dei secoli è servita agli studiosi occidentali per praticare il latino e il greco. Grazie alla tecnologia digitale, l’opera di Prisciano può essere studiata nuovamente con un approccio multidisciplinare. Il progetto PAGES, finanziato dall’UE, permette una nuova edizione critica dell’Ars con analisi e traduzioni sistematiche. PAGES ricostruirà il ruolo di Prisciano negli studi di linguistica e sul greco attraverso una ricerca storica, filologica, paleografica e di informatica umanistica, nonché un’analisi multispettrale dei manoscritti. Tutti i risultati saranno accessibili su una piattaforma digitale.
Obiettivo
Written at the beginning of the 6th century AD in the bilingual context of Constantinople, the Ars Prisciani, in 18 books, is the last and greatest Latin grammar handbook of Antiquity. Bringing together the inheritance of Latin and Greek grammatical traditions, it stands as a milestone in the history of linguistic speculation and is an important source of fragments of lost literary works. The deep impact of this text on European culture falls beyond its original scope. Conceived to teach Latin to Greek speakers, in the early Middle Ages (8th-10th centuries) and during the Renaissance (15th-16th centuries) the Ars turned out, due to its great amount of Greek passages, to stimulate the study of Greek by Western scholars.
The peculiar East-Western transmission of the Ars can now be exploited and thoroughly illustrated thanks to the progress of digital philology. PAGES aims both to supersede Hertz’s outdated and unreliable edition (1855-59) and, in a broader perspective, to reconstruct Priscian’s key role not only in the revival of Latin in 9th-century Europe but also in the practice of Greek script and language in Carolingian scriptoria, in the renaissance of Greek philological studies in the Humanistic Age, and in the history of linguistic education in Europe. The project tackles these challenges with a multidisciplinary approach, gathering experts in textual criticism, digital humanities, palaeography and multispectral imaging, history of linguistics, and medieval and humanistic scholarship.
PAGES will build an open source digital scholarly resource on the text, the tradition, and the reception of Priscian. The infrastructure will make available the results of the systematic census of medieval manuscripts and early printed editions, including the comprehensive inquiry about the Greek script and glosses in Priscian’s 8th-10th-centuries manuscripts as well as about the emendations and interpolations in 15th-16th-centuries manuscripts and printed editions.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantIstituzione ospitante
00185 Roma
Italia