Sliding doors: dal manoscritto alla stampa. I manoscritti dei predicatori

The paper intends to illustrate the typology of the manuscripts of the preaching friars, highlighting their specificity from a palaeographical, codicological and textual point of view and demonstrating how this is destined to be lost in the printed form. They are open containers of a mobile and living text that is the result of a participatory author-reader-audience relationship. A recoverable dimension beyond the confines of the printed book