Riesame paleografico e funzionale del PSI XIII 1307, un papiro latino documentario.

Il saggio è dedicato ai dispositivi di organizzazione dei testi ed è diviso in tre parti: l'origine, l'evoluzione e le dinamiche di tradizione.

The goal of this research is to reconstruct the process of formation of the scriptorium analyzing the late antiquity manuscripts written by many hands. The contexts studied are of two types: one consists of the smaller Christian communities, often in remote areas, in which manuscripts are products of medium and low quality formal; the other consists of the commercial libraries, whose experience is inherited from some important Christian institutions. In the first context spreads a communitarian conception of book production; in the second born a physical and graphical 'normalization' of the codex that takes full advantage of an organized work.

The aim of this research is to investigate the origins of Roman writing usually called ‘capitale rustica’. According to the hypothesis presented here, this writing is not born for the production of books, but in the context of the writings painted, when in the course of the first century BC the simple brush is replaced by a brush with the tip broad and flat (‘pennellessa’). The formation of this style is related to the political, social and institutional changes after the Social War: in Rome and cities under the Roman law, the painted ‘capitale rustica’ was used in inscriptions aimed at informing citizens (laws, decrees, lists of public officials, campaign posters, notices ...). In the second half of the first century BC this writing is also widespread in the commercial sector. Finally, when the book became a luxury consumer goods produced by commercial workshops, the ‘capitale rustica’ was imitated in the books elegant, using a calamus with a wide tip, similar to the ‘pennellessa’.