Research Projects

BIM

Bibliotheca Italica Manuscripta: describing, documenting and enhancing Italy's medieval manuscripts

General Research Area INSTITUTIONS, POLICIES, JUSTICE

Funding ITALIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

Data avvio: 1 February 2013

Data termine: 31 January 2016

Abstract:

Within the overall project framework, the Padua local unit's aim is to focus specifically on surveying and cataloguing dated codices. In its three year lifetime the Padua unit's aim is thus, firstly, to complete the cataloguing of the dated manuscripts conserved in the whole Piedmont region (with the exception of Turin), the provinces of Brescia, Como, Lecco, Lodi Monza, Sondrio and Varese, Bolzano province, Padua’s Biblioteca Capitolare, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Ferrara province and taking at least one of these catalogues to print. It also intends to continue its survey and cataloguing work on Parma province's dated manuscripts and begin work on the first survey of Mantua and province's dated codices and those of Pavia and Valle d'Aosta. The data bank present on the Manoscritti datati d'Italia website Manoscritti datati d'Italia will also be implemented.

National Academic Co-ordinator: 

Stefano Zamponi (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

Local Research Units:

Paolo Eleuteri (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)
Marilena Maniaci (Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale)
Giancarlo Prato (Università degli Studi di Pavia)
Caterina Tristano (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Stefano Zamponi (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Nicoletta Giovè (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Members of the Padova Unit:

Nicoletta Giovè (Head)
Laura Pani (Università degli Studi di Udine)
Simona Gavinelli (Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Milano)
Gionata Brusa (grant holder)