Resumen de La "pyle". Due variazioni sul tema
The "pyle". Two variations on a theme.
The paper concerns the π-shaped headpiece, which is very frequent in Byzantine manuscripts and which scholars call "pyle", as well. After an overview on the use of the latter name in the cataloguing tradition, the first part of the study deals with the origin, the diffusion and the articulations of the famous frame. The second part focuses on SB Kopt. II 845, a Coptic documentary papyrus dating back to the 5th century, which offers an evidence of the word "pyle" referring to the processes of manuscript illumination or rather book binding in late antique monastic communities.
