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Abstract

The group of papyrus fragments published in PSI XIII 1348 transmits a numbered notebook of legal definitions and rules in Greek dating from the pre-justinian period, with quotations in Latin from the works of Roman jurisprudence.

As part of the ERC-Redhis project, a new edition and interpretation of the document has been provided. The formal characteristics of the document were presented, showing some of the novelties detected thanks to the recent autoptic examination of the fragments, to then illustrate the textual content of the document itself, approached from two complementary angles : the textual typology (definitions and rules, the fruit of a creative reworking of works of Roman jurisprudence) and the general structure of the collection (built around extracts taken from Ulpian's Ad Sabinum commentary). Ultimately, the document is an important witness to one of the ways in which Roman jurisprudential works circulated between the5th and 6th centuries AD.

Speaker(s)

Federico Battaglia

University of Zurich, Redhis