The complex problems concerning the reconstruction of the Old High German Muspilli arose ever since Schmeller’s editio princeps in 1832. The intricate events linked to the discovery of the text have extended the already long list of its ecdotic problems. The purpose of this essay is to provide a critical edition of Muspilli that takes full advantage of the contribution of the handwritten transcriptions realised by Docen (and by Maßmann and Schmeller, albeit with the limitations of their uncertain reconstruction through the edition of Vetter 1872) before parts of the manuscript were irreparably damaged. It is therefore in a certain way a “return to the manuscript”, albeit through the mediation of modern handwritten copies, which have their independent value. A famous precedent is constituted by Julius Zupitza’s 1882 edition of Beowulf, which used Thorkelin’s two transcriptions of the poem dating around the year 1800.
Il testo del Muspilli: un esercizio di filologia
Verio Santoro
2022-01-01
Abstract
The complex problems concerning the reconstruction of the Old High German Muspilli arose ever since Schmeller’s editio princeps in 1832. The intricate events linked to the discovery of the text have extended the already long list of its ecdotic problems. The purpose of this essay is to provide a critical edition of Muspilli that takes full advantage of the contribution of the handwritten transcriptions realised by Docen (and by Maßmann and Schmeller, albeit with the limitations of their uncertain reconstruction through the edition of Vetter 1872) before parts of the manuscript were irreparably damaged. It is therefore in a certain way a “return to the manuscript”, albeit through the mediation of modern handwritten copies, which have their independent value. A famous precedent is constituted by Julius Zupitza’s 1882 edition of Beowulf, which used Thorkelin’s two transcriptions of the poem dating around the year 1800.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
