Lars Boje Mortensen – new blogpost about ancient and early medieval books in the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona
New blogpost up at the AntCom-project website by Lars Boje Mortensen: Verona’s Hidden Treasures: A Glimpse into the Capitolare’s Ancient Schoolbooks and Palimpsests
Ever since I was a student, I had been fascinated by the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona. The library stood out in the textbook on the transmission of the classics we read at the University of Copenhagen in the 1980s, Scribes and Scholars. I soon got interested in the early humanists, not least Petrarch and Boccaccio and their exciting library travels – including the Capitolare. Later as a tourist – and as a manuscript scholar – I gazed at the inconspicuous and closed doors. I knew that it was an ecclesiastical institution and had never figured out exactly what it took to get the opportunity to consult manuscripts there...