Ricerc@Sapienza

The theme section of this issue of Adamantius collects the proceedings of the international conference The Coptic book between the 6th and the 8th centuries: codicological features, places of production, intellectual trends (Rome, “Sapienza” Università di Roma – Academia Belgica, 21-22 September 2017)1, organized within the scientific activities of the ERC project “PAThs - Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context: Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage”, plus two more contributions – respectively dedicated to the Coptic version of the letter of Athanasius to the monk Dracontius, transmitted by a horizontal roll, and to the Coptic tradition of John Chrysostom’s homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews – that, although exceeding the chronological limits dealt with the conference, are extremely relevant for the reconstruction of the development of the Christian Egyptian book and literary tradition.