Making a corpus of Latin grammatical papyri is not simply a contribution to Latin Papyrology
but especially a decisive element for our knowledge of manuals in schools in the Eastern Roman
Empire their linguistic theories and the way in which they used to write Grammar. A
diachronical and diatopical analysis in parallel with the known (Tèchnai and the) Late
Antiquity s Artes will support a new step while making a corpus of Grammaticae Romanae
Fragmenta. In 1979 Alfons Wouters published a corpus containing twentyfive grammatical papyri.
Only one was Latin the P.Lit.Lond. 184 (Brit. Libr. inv. 2723) + P.Mich. VII 429 which
contains an Ars concerning the parts of speech and other grammatical themes written on the
verso of a military document (II a.D.). Today after more than thirty years new documents can
be added to Wouters corpus and the book inglobes all of them. Artes Grammaticae in frammenti
collects and scrutinizes all the known Latin and bilingual (Greek-Latin and Latin-Greek)
grammatical texts on papyrus in order to add further tesserae in the mosaic of our knowledge of
forms practices and circulation of Latin grammar and Roman education.
