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Carla Falluomini (born 1970) is an Italian philologist who specializes on Gothic and Lombardic
palaeography Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US; ultimately from grc-gre, , ''palaiós'', "old", and , ''gráphein'', "to write") is the study of historic writing systems and the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysi ...
, languages and cultures. She is currently professor at the
University of Perugia University of Perugia ( Italian ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public-owned university based in Perugia, Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by Pope Clement V certifying the birth of the Studium Generale. ...
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Biography

Carla Falluomini was born in 1970 in
Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...
. In 1999, she gave a new collation for Gothic text of
Codex Carolinus Codex Carolinus is an uncial manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, dated to the 6th or 7th century. It is a palimpsest containing a Latin text written over a Gothic one. The Gothic text is designated by siglum ''Car'', the Latin text is d ...
; the first collation of the codex was made by
Franz Anton Knittel Franz Anton Knittel (April 3, 1721 – December 10, 1792) was a German, Lutheran orthodox theologian, priest, and palaeographer. He examined palimpsests' text of the ''Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis'' and deciphered text of Codex C ...
in 1762,Knittel, ''Ulphilae versionem Gothicam nonnullorum capitum epistolae Pauli ad Romanos e litura MS. rescript Bibliothecae Guelferbytanae, cum variis monumentis ineditis eruit, commentatus est, detitque foras'', Brunovici 1762 who had made some errors. Falluomini taught Germanic philology at the
University of Turin The University of Turin ( Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an imp ...
. Since 2006, she has been involved in an international project to publish a new critical edition of the Gothic Bible. In 2010, she was the UNESCO contact person for the inclusion of the
Codex Argenteus The Codex Argenteus (Latin for "Silver Book/Codex") is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript, originally containing part of the 4th-century translation of the Christian Bible into the Gothic language. Traditionally ascribed to the Arian bi ...
in the
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Works

* ''Der sogenannte Codex Carolinus von Wolfenbüttel. (Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis). Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der gotisch-lateinischen Blätter (255, 256, 277, 280)'', Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien, Wiesbaden (1999). * ''Sagitho und nicht sautho. Zu 1 Kor. 15,2 in der gotischen Bibel'', ZfdA 133 (2004) 75-79
''Textkritische Anmerkungen zur Gotischen Bibel''
Annali della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere 5, 2005 (2009), pp. 311–320. * ''Kodikologische Bemerkungen über die Handschriften der Goten'' (2006), p. 3-37 * ''The Gothic version of the Gospels and Pauline epistles: cultural background, transmission and character'', Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, Berlin (2015).


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Falluomini, Carla Academic staff of the University of Turin Italian palaeographers Living people 1970 births