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Résumé :

Graphic expertise in (and around) Byzantium. Scholarly interests, authorial intentions, legal practices · By analyzing the information that can be inferred from both the study of literary sources and the direct examination of manuscripts – especially books, with their subscriptions and annotations, but also ancient documents, inventories, and catalogues –, this essay attempts to delineate why and how in the Byzantine world (and beyond) forms of palaeographical expertise emerged and gradually refined, detailing, where possible, milieux and protagonists of such a practice.