This is a contribution to the study of Haimo of Auxerre's In diui Pauli Epistolas expositio and his Expositio in Osee prophetam in the tenth and eleventh centuries, focusing on Ratherius of Lobbes (a.k.a. Ratherius of Verona), the abbeys of Lobbes and Gembloux, and Archbishop Robert of Trier. No source is cited more often in Ratherius's marginal notes to his Praeloquia than Haimo's commentary on the Pauline Letters, and Ratherius was particularly interested in Haimo's discussion of the Eucharist in his commentary to I Corinthians 11. Ratherius's studies of Haimo influenced his successors at Lobbes and Gembloux for generations. Annotations and quotations from Haimo on Osea and from Ovid's Tristia in Ratherius' Praeloquia provide hints about his compositional methods and his network of scholarly correspondents, in particular Archbishop Robert of Trier.
The study focuses on a short prophetic composition from the second half of the 13th century transmitted by the manuscript Philadelphia, Free Library, Rare Book Department, Lewis E 001. The text is a combination of two different political prophecies referring to the conflict between the Angevins and the Hohenstaufen: one of them begins with the words << Surget leo >> and the other with << Grifo regalis >>. Each of them had an autonomous tradition with relevant textual differences with respect to the mentioned composition, and it is likely that they have been adapted to form a textual unit. Furthermore, the Philadelphia composition is interesting in that it was cited almost literally (although not from this copy) by Salimbene, in a chapter of the Chronicle that is preserved headless and that can now be restored.
The paper discusses the manuscript tradition of the Franciscan friar Thomas of Pavia's Cronica, traditionally known as Gesta imperatorum et pontificum. After a brief introduction to the author's life and works, the study concentrates on the Cronica and its three textual redactions, each of which transmitted by one of the three codices that compose its tradition-Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 21 sin. 5; Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 21 sin. 7; Paris, Biblioth & egrave;que nationale de France, lat. 6815. After an extensive description of the codices, the paper focuses on the Florentine manuscripts, produced in the 13th century. Through a philological and codicological analysis, the study aims to demonstrate that these manuscripts are idiographic and partially autographic, and that they must be produced within the convent of Santa Croce, under the supervision of Thomas of Pavia himself: the codices not only preserve the traces of textual revision and rewriting conducted by the author, but also reveal significant information about their production and the interaction between author and scribes.
The article examines the hagiographic dossier related to Saints Marcian, Macarius, Stratocline, and Protogenes, consisting of a Passio (BHL 5265b), written certainly before the mid-9th century and preserved in five manuscripts, and a later reworking from the 13th century, known as the 'Chigi reworking' after the current shelfmark of the only codex that transmits it (Citty del Vaticano, BAV, Chig. P.VIII.15). The contribution aims to provide an overview of both works and to present the first critical edition of both BHL 5265b and the Chigi versio. The Passio 5265b recounts the story of a group of martyrs from Forum Clodii, a little-known locality in Roman Tuscia; the published text is based on the testimony of the only two philologically significant manuscripts: BAV, Arch. Cap. S. Pietro A.2 and BAV, Vat. lat. 1195, both dating to the 11th century. The 'Chigi reworking' is arranged following the scheme of the opus geminum: the prose section, undoubtedly based on BHL 5265b, is accompanied by a poetic composition in leonine elegiac couplets that recounts substantially the same story. This work, hitherto unpublished, is presented here for the first time, with emendations to the text where the codex clearly does not reflect the original form of the reworking.
A likely kinship between Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 29, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Biblioth & egrave;que des Annonciades, Ms. 48, K & ouml;ln, Erzbisch & ouml;fliche Di & ouml;zesan-und Dombibliothek, Cod. 79, and Wien, & Ouml;sterreichische Nationalbibliothek, 752 has already been suggested by several scholars based on their content. The four manuscripts contain a collection of texts on the topic of predestination, written by (pseudo-)Augustine and Prosper. The present paper is a dedicated study of these four manuscripts. The origin and circulation of the collection preserved in the four witnesses is briefly touched upon. A detailed historical and paleographical description precedes a philological study based on a full collation one of the texts they share, Hypomnesticon VI, resulting in a clear stemma codicum. The paper also provides a basis for future philological and historical research into this predestination collection.
