Annaclara Cataldi Palau is an Italian palaeographer specialising in Greek mediaeval and renaissance palaeography and history of the book.

Life

Annaclara Cataldi was born in

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and studied Classics in the

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, then she lived several years in Paris and studied Greek palaeography at the

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. Her studies there culminated in a ‘Doctorat’ in Greek Palaeography. In 1994 she was commissioned to catalogue the Greek manuscripts in the

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, Oxford, published 2011. She was Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics at King's College London 2000-2005 and Visiting Professor in Greek Palaeography at Royal Holloway, University of London, The Hellenic Institute, from 2011-2016; she is currently Cultore della materia at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, 2015-2018. In palaeography she proposed new criteria to distinguish 8th-century manuscripts from those of the 9th century: the development of accentuation and the regularity of the accentuation suggest a date in the 9th century; while abundant colourful decoration is uncharacteristic of the eighth century. Rich ornamentation is infrequent in 8th-century manuscripts, which mostly have uncomplicated initials.

Works

* ''Catalogo dei manoscritti greci della Biblioteca Franzoniana (Genova)'' : (Urbani 2-20) (Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Bollettino dei Classici, Suppl. n. 8), Roma, 1990; Urbani 21-40, Roma 1996. * "La biblioteca del Cardinale Giovanni Salviati: Alcuni nuovi manoscritti greci in biblioteche diverse della Vaticana", in: ''Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits''; 49 (1995) * ''Gian Francesco d'Asola e la tipografia aldina: La vita, le edizioni, la biblioteca dell'Asolano'', Genoa: Sagep Libri & Communicazione, 1998 * "A Little Known Manuscript of the Gospels in ‘Maiuscola biblica’: Basil. Gr A. N. III. 12", in: ''Byzantion''; 74 (2004): 463-516 * "The Burdett-Coutts collection of Greek manuscripts: manuscripts from Epirus" in: ''Codices Manuscripti'' (2006), 31-64 * ''Studies in Greek Manuscripts'', Testi, Studi, Strumenti, 24, II volumes, Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Mediovo, Spoleto 2008 * 'A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts from the Meerman Collection in the Bodleian Library', Bodleian Library,University of Oxford, 2011

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cataldi Palau, Annaclara Italian palaeographers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of King's College London