Some remarks regarding commentaries on codex from late antiquity

Marco Stroppa

doi:10.1515/tcs.2009.016

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Some remarks regarding commentaries on codex from late antiquity

Marco Stroppa

Published/Copyright: December 2, 2009

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Abstract

The hypomnema is a work typical of a roll culture: it is a type of commentary intended for circulation as an independent book accompanied by a separate book containing the authorial text. During the crucial phase of transition between roll and codex book-formats, a copyist who was about to transcribe a commentary from a roll to a codex had the option of creating a codex in which the literary work was furnished in the margins with a transcription of the hypomnema. Yet the existence and preservation of ten fragments from commentaries on codex allows us to establish with certainty that independent commentaries on codex were indeed still being produced between the third and sixth centuries A.D. An analysis and study of these ten texts will allow us to compare their features, and especially the details of their structures, which are fundamentally characterized by an alternation of extracts from the literary text with explanations of these: it is this particular trait which distinguishes commentaries from other exegetical works.

Keywords:: literary papyri; commentaries; late antiquity

Published Online: 2009-12-02

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literary papyri; commentaries; late antiquity