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Furthermore, because the PLATINUM’s experience may grow, partnerships have been established with some European centers, having as field of research the study of Latin texts on papyrus and transmitted through papyraceous tradition, in a continuous relationship of dialogue and collaboration. |
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![]() The École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) is a public higher education institution of training and research both in the humanities and social sciences and basic and applied sciences founded in 1868. http://www.ephe.fr/ |
![]() The Collaborative Research Centre 933 (University of Heidelberg) examines script-bearing artefacts: pillars, steles, portals, tombstones, potsherds, amulets, scrolls, papyri, parchment codices; to name only a few. Its main research interest focusses on the specific materiality, the evoked presence of the inscribed artefacts and the written texts themselves. http://www.materiale-textkulturen.org/ |
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![]() The British Library is home to world-class collections of manuscripts including papyri, medieval illuminated manuscripts and early modern state papers. The aim of the the British Library’s Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section is to revisit and refresh its distinguished collection of Latin papyri by digitizing, cataloguing and publishing it at its digitised manuscripts website and promoting it for academic audience as well as the wider public. http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx |
![]() “NOTAE – NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols” is a project funded by the European Research Council. It aims to investigate the presence of graphic symbols in documentary records as a historical phenomenon from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe and represents the first attempt to conduct a research on such topic. ‘Graphic symbols’ are meant as graphic signs (including alphabetical ones) drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other than a word. http://www.notae-project.eu/ |