Кармасси Патриция; Джеймонат Людовико
Гёттингенский университет имени Георга-Августа, Германия; Библиотека Герциана, Институт истории искусств общества Макса Планка, Рим, Италия
This paper offers the first analysis of a 32-page palimpsest that has been recently identified by Patrizia Carmassi in the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Lucan’s Bellum Civile was copied over the folios of parchment in the 12th century. UV photographs show that the scriptio inferior is made of an extraordinary set of drawings which include two centaurs as well as other classical figures and motives. On the basis of codicological, paleographical and documentary evidence, Patrizia Carmassi connects the Lucan manuscript to the 12th century library of St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey in Augsburg (Bavaria). Ludovico Geymonat proposes to attribute the drawings in the scriptio inferior to a Carolingian scriptorium with direct access to classical sources.
The paper uses this newly-discovered (and still unpublished) palimpsest to explore the role of drawings as means of transmission of images from classical antiquity to the early Middle Ages.