Vari - Lotto di libri di papirologia - 1982-1998

Lot of 5 titles - one in two volumes - on papyrology, the study of writings on papyrus that represented a real revolution in the field of writing starting from ancient Egypt.

Fifty years of papyrology in Italy Vol. I-II, Bibliopolis 1983
Edited by Donato Morelli and Rosario Pitaudi
890 pages
Standard reference work on papyrology in Italy in the first half of the 20th century.

Andrea De Jorio, Officina de’ papiri, Eurocompa 2000 Napoli 1998
118 pages
Anastatic reprint of a work from 1825.

Contributi alla storia della officina dei papiri ercolanesi Vol. 2, Istituto Poligrafico e ecca dello Stato 1986
Edited by Marcello Gigante
208 pages
Notebook of a series of studies on the papyri of Ercolano, a large collection almost entirely destroyed after the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
The papyri found and not destroyed are mostly kept at the Vittorio Emanuele III National Library at the Royal Palace of Naples, studied at the section called Officina dei Papiri Ercolanes.

Graziano Arrighetti, Dieci anni di papirologia ercolanese, Società Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Napoli 1982
26 pages
Text of a lecture by Professor Graziano Arrighetti, university professor and scholar of classical philology.

Domenico Cirillo, Il papiro, Adriano Gallina 1983
38 pages
Reprint of a monograph on the layout of the papyrus printed in 1796. The author was a great botanist and a patriot of the Neapolitan Republic, executed in 1799 after the Bourbons returned to power.