I 'Codices Graeci Antiquiores' tra scavo e biblioteca

The paper presents the project Codices Graeci Antiquiores, whose goals are the census, the description and the study of Greek manuscripts in codex form from the first extant witnesses to the year 900 AD. Because of the extreme variety of the items included in such limits, a new catalogue description has been developed, by combining more epistemological models belonging to different disciplines, mainly codicology and papyrology. The paper is also provided with some appendices, which illustrate a new formula for ruling patterns and give some concrete examples of the typologies of the Codices Graeci Antiquiores collected and described.