Il ramo fonte tra critica e storia del testo: il commento al Cantico di Angelomo di Luxeuil e il ms. Bruxelles, KBR, 15111-28 (479)

THE ‘SOURCE BRANCH’ BETWEEN TEXTUAL CRITICISM AND TEXTUAL HISTORY:
ANGELOMUS OF LUXEUIL’S COMMENTARY ON SONG OF SONGS AND MS. BRUXELLES, KBR, 15111-28 (479)
This article aims to illustrate the importance of the so-called source branch for
the preparation of the critical edition of a Carolingian biblical commentary, namely
Angelomus’ Commentary on Song of Songs. This is a peculiar case as far as the
textual transmission of a source is concerned, since it suggests that an author making
use of a source might have played a role in its transmission. Among the sources
on which Angelomus drew, Gregory the Great’s commentary on the Canticle and
the anonymous compilation Vox antique ecclesie are those considered in this study.
This is because these two sources were probably available to Angelomus in the
same manuscript, which in turn derived from the same antigraph from which the
ms. Bruxelles, KBR, 15111-28 (479) was copied – both works are contained in
this manuscript. The study of the circumstances of the textual transmission permits
us to assume a close relationship between Angelomus and the anonymous compilation
and, therefore, that Angelomus was, if not its author, at least somehow behind
the preparation of such compilation.