Dealing with the Stratigraphy of Coptic Codices: the Cases of MSS Pierpont Morgan Library M578 and Coptic Museum, inv. 13446

This paper proposes a codicological analysis of two Coptic manuscripts, illustrating how the accurate protocol of codicological description developed within the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘PAThs’, combined with the concepts and the models of the codex stratigraphy described in the recent book La syntaxe du codex, can lead to innovative results and new perspectives in understanding Coptic book production