Beschreibung:
Franca Arduini is Director of the Biblioteca Medicea Laureziana, Florence. Guglielmo Cavallo is Professor of Greek Palaeography at the Universita di Roma. He is one of the world's leading experts on palaeography and the history of writing.
Divided into two sections - the Papyrus Collection and the Manuscript collection. This title features two intentionally striking extremes - a potsherd on which a pupil from the 2nd century BC wrote the ancient verses of one of Sappho's odes and a 19th century Japanese erotic-grotesque scroll.