La diffusione dei testi del diritto nell'Europa medievale e moderna. Riflessioni su metodo, strumenti e nuove possibilità di indagine

The first part of the article serves as an introduction to the main features of legal texts and their transmission; particular attention, given the context, is given to marginalia which are peculiar to legal texts, such as the glosses. The introduction also provides a summary of how the evolving of the texts over the time had a great impact on the very making of the book, starting from the page. Then, the core of the article follows which is dedicated to the study of the transmission of legal texts from the perspective of the bibliographer and historian of the book also to underlie that he/she will have to take into consideration studies published by legal historians. The method under proposal includes the development of a digital platform (IVS Commune online) of which the main features are provided. In doing this, the author of this article offers some observations on methodology as well as some thoughts on matters of cultural politics.