Gli autori latini del medioevo: authority list e authority file [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale] = Medieval Latin authors: authority list and authority file [English version presented at the International Conference]

Abstract

The authority control for Medieval Latin literature presents a particularly delicate and complex problem. The first necessity which continues to be hard to satisfy for the person who is compiling a biographical, bibliographical or historical reference work in the field of medieval literature, is to be able to depend on a reliable author list. The authority control for medieval Latinity often requires original researches, which in turn demand qualified competence. The idea of elaborating a new authority list developed, as a result, within the ‘Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino’ and the ‘Fondazione Franceschini’, including all those authors who wrote in Latin between 500 and 1500. For these institutions the problem in authority control is present on several fronts: the production of bibliographical instruments (the ‘Medioevo Latino’ newsletter and the C.A.L.M.A. reference work), manuscript cataloguing (the Codex project), and the production of the library catalogue for these two bodies, highly specialized in medieval Latin literature