Anselmo Banduri
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Anselmo Banduri (18 August 1671 or 1675 – 4 January 1743) was a
Dalmatian Italian, Benedictine scholar, archaeologist and numismatologist from the Republic of Ragusa
.
Biography
Banduri was born in
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany for the chair of ecclesiastical history in the University of Pavia
. It was also suggested that the young Benedictine be sent to Paris for a period of preparation, and especially to acquire a sound critical sense.
After a short sojourn at Rome, Banduri arrived at Paris in 1702 and entered the
Nicephorus of Constantinople, of the writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia, and of other Greek ecclesiastical authors. Banduri never published these works, though as late as 1722 he announced, as near at hand, their appearance in four folio volumes. In the meantime, he was attracted by the rich treasures of Byzantine manuscript and other material in the Bibliothèque Royale and the Bibliothèque Colbert
.
In 1711 he published at Paris his
Trajan Decius to the last of the Palaeologi (249-1453), Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum a Trajano Decio usque ad Palaeologos Augustos (supplement by Tanini, Rome, 1791). Of this work Father Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, S.J., prince of numismatologists, says (Doctrina Nummorum I, cviii) that it contains few important contributions. At the same time he praises the remarkable bibliography of the subject that Banduri prefixed to this work under the title of Bibliotheca nummaria sive auctorum qui de re nummaria scripserunt, reprinted by Johann Albert Fabricius
(Hamburg, 1719).
In 1715 Banduri was made an honorary foreign member of the Académie des Inscriptions, and in 1724 was appointed librarian to the Duke of Orléans; he had in vain solicited a similar office at Florence on the death of the famous Antonio Magliabechi.
He died in Paris.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Anselmo Banduri". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
External links
- Impellizzeri, Salvatore; Rotta, Salvatore (1963). "BANDUR, Matteo". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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