"Possidius Sangallensis". Die Gestalt der Augustinusvita nach der Handschrift St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 571
Peter Stotz|Paolo Chiesa|Anna Maria Fagnoni|Rossana Guglielmetti
The Vita Augustini written by Possidius has come down to us in a very great number of manuscripts. Understandably its editors worked with rather small selection them. Among the textual witnesses left aside there is Cod. 571 Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen (S). This beautiful manuscript Carolingian age shows, apart from many erroneous or otherwise negligible lectures, certain peculiarities which at least could be some interest, though few them offer better reading text as such. mere fact that scribe S committed mistakes own, makes it probable these other, more interesting variants go back an earlier stage transmission text. Many are attested also other recorded editors, yet considerable special readings have been unknown so far. In this paper they presented and briefly discussed. - divided into 50 chapters, contrast textus receptus: 31 chapters (besides praefatio). hitherto table contents preceding edited appendix.
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