Abstract
The so-called «Collection philosophique » is a series of Greek philosophical and scientific manuscripts attributable to a group of learned copyists working in the second half of the 9th century, probably in Constantinople. A paleographic and codicological analysis shows that two of the copyists, one of Plato’s manuscript, Paris, BnF, gr. 1807, and the other of the manuscripts of Alexander of Aphrodisias, Venice, BNM, gr. 258, and of Ptolemy, Vatican, BAV, gr. 1594, had a coordinating function. The analysis of the texts they collected demonstrates that the two coordinators were associated in the same project of recovery and safeguarding of philosophical material from late Antiquity that was mainly Neoplatonic. The history of several manuscripts descending from one or the other of their groups also confirms that their respective productions had for the most part remained kept together until the end of the 13th century.
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