Christian Oriental Colophons: Notes for a Structural Analysis (with a Look to the Past): A Preface

Introduction to the articles collected in a ‘thematic section’ of the COMSt Bulletin, dedicated to Greek, Coptic, Ethiopic and Armenian colophons, which represent an outcome of the round table "I colofoni cristiani orientali: per un’analisi strutturale", which took place at Sapienza University of Rome on 14 February 2020, as the fourth annual conference organised by the ‘PAThs’ project. The round table also included interventions on colophons of the Syriac, Christian Arabic, Georgian and Slavonic manuscript traditions. The article mainly faces terminological and methodolical aspects related to colophons.