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 ...
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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
UNESCO World Heritage List
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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
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Academic staff of the University of Turin
Italian palaeographers
Living people
1970 births