New Roman law documents. The circulation of works by Roman jurists after the end of legal literature (^4th-6th c. AD) and the Redhis project

Abstract

After defining the method of the research in progress at Redhis and summarizing the main results, three texts chosen from unpublished papyri were presented : the Institutes of the jurist Marcianus (P.Vindob. L 59 + L 92, ^4th-5th century copy ) ; the first known copy of the Theodosian Code with a commentary in Greek, mentioning jurists (Berlin papyri, unpublished, in progress of publication by S. Ammirati and D. Mantovani : copy from the^5th century) ; a fragment of Justinian's Digest (P.Berol. inv. 14081 : copy from the ^6th century), which attests to the wide distribution of this anthology, a sign of uninterrupted familiarity with the works of classical jurists.