Starting from an unpublished letter by Theodor Mommsen sent in July 1882 to Robert Sinker, Librarian of Trinity College, the paper traces thefacts that led to the disappearance of the Cantabridgian manuscript O.4.36, usedby Mommsen for the compilation of Jordanes’Romana et Getica and perished inthe fire of his library in 1880. At the same time are reconstructed and investiga-ted the relationships, personal and cultural, which occurred between Mommsenand English academics.

"But the calamity was complete and total". Mommsen, Giordane e i dotti inglesi / Mandatori, Gianluca. - In: QUADERNI DI STORIA. - ISSN 0391-6936. - STAMPA. - 86:(2017), pp. 177-202.

"But the calamity was complete and total". Mommsen, Giordane e i dotti inglesi

Gianluca Mandatori
2017

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Starting from an unpublished letter by Theodor Mommsen sent in July 1882 to Robert Sinker, Librarian of Trinity College, the paper traces thefacts that led to the disappearance of the Cantabridgian manuscript O.4.36, usedby Mommsen for the compilation of Jordanes’Romana et Getica and perished inthe fire of his library in 1880. At the same time are reconstructed and investiga-ted the relationships, personal and cultural, which occurred between Mommsenand English academics.
2017
Theodor Mommsen; Jordanes; Trinity College; manuscripts; cultural relationships
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"But the calamity was complete and total". Mommsen, Giordane e i dotti inglesi / Mandatori, Gianluca. - In: QUADERNI DI STORIA. - ISSN 0391-6936. - STAMPA. - 86:(2017), pp. 177-202.
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