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Pragmatic Challenges in Neo-Latin Manuscript Studies: Working on Manuscript Material and Working on Facts

Every manuscript has its own characteristics and peculiarities from which arise specific problems, and consequently, equally unique solutions necessary for adequately preparing such a source for publishing. In this talk the selected examples of various types of Renaissance and early modern Latin manuscript sources from Dalmatian Eastern Adriatic communes (such as narrative sources, notary deeds and demographic sources) address two main issues. The first one concerns the challenges of working with manuscript material, depending on the availability of the autograph and/or its transcripts, as well as the level of preservation of the manuscript itself. Another important but sometimes equally challenging aspect of manuscript studies has to do with working on facts, i.e. using the manuscript as a source of data for various fields of humanities (for example: historiography, Slavic studies and art history). In spite of all scholarly methods, working on such chronologically distant sources inevitably bears certain limitations. Which are the methods for successfully overcoming these obstacles? Is it always possible to deal with each challenge of working with manuscripts? Or do we sometimes have to face the fact that a small number of issues will remain hard-to-solve or even insoluble?

manuscripts, archive, Latin language

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