Francisco Pérez Bayer as Alejandro Javier Panel’s Informant and Some Notes on Roman Inscriptions from the Salamanca Province

Abstract

After briefly reviewing the career of Francisco Pérez Bayer, one of the most important figures of the Hispanic cultural scene of the 18th century, we analyse his work in the field of epigraphy and his relationship, as an informant, with Alejandro Javier Panel. Pérez Bayer provided the French Jesuit with notes about numerous epigraphs, epigraphs that Panel then integrated into his inconclusive corpus of Roman inscriptions of Hispania. Among the manuscripts of Panel, his notes related to various pieces of Salamanca are almost unknown, but are a good sample of the quality of the Valencian’s epigraphic work.

Keywords

• manuscritos
• epigrafía latina