Pasquale Orsini
Encyclopedia
Pasquale Orsini is an Italian
palaeographer
, librarian, and Professor from Università di Catania-Siracusa.
. He works at the Università di Catania-Siracusa. In 2004 he became a member of the Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati.
He examined and described Uncial 059
, 082
, 0321
, and manuscripts housed in the Biblioteca Malastiana
, in Cesena
.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
palaeographer
Palaeography
Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...
, librarian, and Professor from Università di Catania-Siracusa.
Life
Orsini studied at the University of Rome. He was a pupil of prof. Guglielmo CavalloGuglielmo Cavallo
Guglielmo Cavallo is an Italian Greek palaeographer and professor from the Sapienza University of Rome.- Life :Cavallo graduated from the University of Bari in 1961...
. He works at the Università di Catania-Siracusa. In 2004 he became a member of the Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati.
He examined and described Uncial 059
Uncial 059
Uncial 059 , ε 09 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 4th or 5th century.- Description :The codex contains a part of the Gospel of Mark , on 1 parchment leaf...
, 082
Uncial 082
Uncial 082 α 1024 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, assigned palaeographically to the 6th century.- Description :...
, 0321
Uncial 0321
Uncial 0321 , ε 2 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th century. The manuscript has survived in very fragmentary condition.- Description :...
, and manuscripts housed in the Biblioteca Malastiana
Malatestiana Library
The Malatestiana Library , also known as the Malatesta Novello Library, is a public library in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna . It was the first European civic library, i.e. belonging to the Commune and open to everybody. It was commissioned by the Lord of Cesena, Malatesta Novello...
, in Cesena
Cesena
Cesena is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, south of Ravenna and west of Rimini, on the Savio River, co-chief of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. It is at the foot of the Apennines, and about 15 km from the Adriatic Sea.-History:Cesena was originally an Umbrian...
.
Works
- Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2005 (Collana scientifica, Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Letterari e Storici, 7).
- Pasquale Orsini, P. Radiciotti, I frammenti della Qubbat al-khazna di Damasco. A proposito di una scoperta sottovalutata, "Nea Rhome" 5 (2008), pp. 45–74.