The late ninth-century manuscript Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 1398a contains a fragmentary commentary on Song of Songs. A close analysis of this manuscript has permitted to identify in its four long segments (pp. 19-30) the surviving sections of the Compendium in Canticum Canticorum by Alcuin of York (its critical edition was published by R. E. Guglielmetti in 2004). This new witness does not provide any further element to the establishment of the text of Alcuin’s commentary, for it belongs to a well-represented subfamily of the stemma and does not contain emendations to the innovations which are specific to each of the various levels of the stemma: whether to its family, to the subarchetype from which it derives or to the archetype common to the whole tradition. Yet, this manuscript helps to reconstruct the text’s transmission regarding both a time not too distant from its composition and a well-defined geographical area (this can be either the Rhineland or the South of France). This article offers a critical apparatus which complements that of the edition of Alcuin’s work: it reports all the representative lectiones of the manuscript, whether they are unique or shared with its family or branch.
Fra i mss. di San Gallo, sotto la segnatura 1398A sono raccolti dei frammenti sparsi di diversa natura. Una sezione (pp. 19-30) contiene alcuni fogli del Compendium in Canticum di Alcuino, risalenti alla fine del IX sec. e localizzabili in ambito renano o francese meridionale. Si presentano i risultati della collazione del nuovo testimone, messo a confronto con l'edizione critica di R.E. Guglielmetti (Alcuino Commento al Cantico dei Cantici con i commenti anonimi «Vox Ecclesie» «Vox antique Ecclesie» Firenze 2004): il codice non produce novità di rilievo nella constitutio textus dell'opera, ma può essere inserito con buona probabilità in un punto preciso dello stemma, e permette di ricostruire un tassello della diffusione dell'opera nell'area corrispondente.
Un nuovo testimone del commento al Cantico dei Cantici di Alcuino: Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 1398a / Ricci, Luigi G. G.. - In: FILOLOGIA MEDIOLATINA. - ISSN 1124-0008. - 26:(2019), pp. 433-445.
Un nuovo testimone del commento al Cantico dei Cantici di Alcuino: Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 1398a
Luigi G. G. Ricci
2019-01-01
Abstract
The late ninth-century manuscript Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 1398a contains a fragmentary commentary on Song of Songs. A close analysis of this manuscript has permitted to identify in its four long segments (pp. 19-30) the surviving sections of the Compendium in Canticum Canticorum by Alcuin of York (its critical edition was published by R. E. Guglielmetti in 2004). This new witness does not provide any further element to the establishment of the text of Alcuin’s commentary, for it belongs to a well-represented subfamily of the stemma and does not contain emendations to the innovations which are specific to each of the various levels of the stemma: whether to its family, to the subarchetype from which it derives or to the archetype common to the whole tradition. Yet, this manuscript helps to reconstruct the text’s transmission regarding both a time not too distant from its composition and a well-defined geographical area (this can be either the Rhineland or the South of France). This article offers a critical apparatus which complements that of the edition of Alcuin’s work: it reports all the representative lectiones of the manuscript, whether they are unique or shared with its family or branch.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
