Annaclara Cataldi Palau is an Italian palaeographer specialising in Greek mediaeval and renaissance palaeography and history of the book.
Annaclara Cataldi was born in Genoa and studied Classics in the University of Genoa, then she lived several years in Paris and studied Greek palaeography at the Sorbonne.
In 1994 she was commissioned to catalogue the Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, published 2011.
She was visiting professor in the Department of Classics at King's College London 2000-2005 and visiting professor in Greek Palaeography at Royal Holloway, University of London, The Hellenic Institute, from 2011-2016; she is currently Cultore della materia at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, 2015-2018.
Rich ornamentation is infrequent in 8th-century manuscripts, which mostly have uncomplicated initials.