Salle 4, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Abstract

Three new witnesses to the Theodosian Code (the collection of imperial constitutions promulgated by Theodosius II in AD 438) have been presented. They are all of Eastern origin and provenance, certainly from a complete version of the Theodosian Code, identified as part of the Redhis project, and join the seven manuscripts already known (six of which were written in the West). P.Vindob. L 128, fragments of a papyrus code, may contain a page from the second book of the Theodosian Code ; P.Vindob. L 95 probably comes from book XIV, but with a significant textual divergence from what is known ; finally, the Berlin papyrus fragments (as yet unpublished) refer to parts of book IV, with numerous marginal and interlinear notes, written by at least two contemporary Greek hands. Serena Ammirati presented the Viennese fragments and illustrated the codicology and paleography of the Berlin fragments ; Dario Mantovani gave elements of exegesis of the text (constitutions attested here for the first time) and marginalia (with quotations from passages of Roman jurisprudence).

Speaker(s)

Serena Ammirati

RomaTre University, Redhis