Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen
Evina Steinová
The Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for study Etymologiae Isidore Seville in Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from Etymologiaebe associated with Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions Isidore’s encyclopaedia second half ninth century. prototype codices these survive today Swiss libraries, one as Zofingen, Stadtbibliothek, Pa 32, other Gallen,Stiftsbibliothek, MS 231 – 232. first redaction represents an attemptto enrich by incorporating De natura rerum into encyclopaedia. is result a collation four sets Etymologiae, some which and bear collationmarks variant readings inserted margins. While none many hands that were involved copying be attributed to any known scholars active at century, seem have been over course several decades under auspices praepositus later abbot Hartmut.
Keywords: Seville, manuscripts, Hartmut textual criticism, critical signs, scholarship
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