Pasquale Orsini (born 1970) is an Italian
palaeographer
Palaeography ( UK) or paleography ( US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of historical writing systems. It encompasses the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dati ...
, librarian, and Professor from Università di Catania-Siracusa.
Life
Orsini studied at the
Sapienza University of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...
. He was a pupil of prof.
Guglielmo Cavallo. He works at the Università di Catania-Siracusa. In 2004 he became a member of the Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati.
Pasquale Orsini
He examined and described Uncial 059, 082, 0321, and manuscripts housed in the Biblioteca Malatestiana, in Cesena
Cesena (; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy; and - with Forlì - is the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. Served by Autostrada A14 (Italy), Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine M ...
.
Works
* ''Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Cassino'', 2005 (Collana scientifica, Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Letterari e Storici, 7).
* Pasquale Orsini, P. Radiciotti
''I frammenti della Qubbat al-khazna di Damasco. A proposito di una scoperta sottovalutata''
"Nea Rhome" 5 (2008), pp. 45–74.
References
External links
Pasquale Orsini
AIPD
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1970 births
Italian palaeographers
Living people