ABSTRACT
The sketchbook signals the ergon that has a potentiality to be instead of being that which exists in actuality per se. This is the case inspite of the object-character of the physical graphemes that the sketchbook receives by way of registering the motions of the forms of presentation and of the figurative outline as a movement of the Darstellung, which remains concealed within the pathways of the unfurling of the realized ergon. The sketch belongs to the realm of inquiry, and the sketchbook itself can be seen as a codex. Hence, it can be subjected to the studies that animate codicology and palaeography, in looking at it as a set of handwritten manuscripts and illuminations, and of examining their graphical traces, and even their glosses and marginalia, in view of deciphering the happening of their contents.
