A new witness of the third recension of ps.-Methodius'Revelationes: Winithar's manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 238 and the role of Rome in human history
Cinzia Grifoni
Winithar, monk and decanus at Saint-Gall in the second half of eighth century, is known to modern scholarship as writer one charter several manuscripts. This article focuses on Winithar's autograph St Gallen 238, arguing that its various texts were part collected copied, perhaps composed by Winithar himself, light a specific editorial plan. In this plan, text entitled De gentibus, new witness Revelationes ps.-Methodius so-called third recension, confers Romans Rome leading role among western peoples until Judgement Day.
Early Medieval Europe