Twenty Years of Work on the "Song of Songs": an Appraisal and a Proposal for Exegetic Studies

• Autores: Rossana Guglielmetti
• Localización: Filologia mediolatina: rivista della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, ISSN 1124-0008, Nº. 27, 2020, págs. 67-88
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen
  • italiano

    Sulla base dell'esperienza di edizione critica e studio delle tradizioni di svariati commenti al Cantico dei cantici, l'A. traccia uno status quaestionis delle acquisizioni ottenute in merito ai testi coinvolti, che spesso corregge le informazioni contenute nei repertori, e propone un possibile modello metodologico da applicare al genere esegetico e non solo. L'esempio mostra infatti come, nel caso di testi così segnati dalla dipendenza verso le fonti, un'analisi integrata e simultanea delle tradizioni manoscritte di più testi permetterebbe di evitare errori ricostruttivi e di valutare più correttamente l'apporto originale di ogni commentario. Sono affrontati i commenti di Alcuino, Giusto d'Urgell, Angelomo di Luxeuil, Giovanni da Sulmona, e gli anonimi Vox ecclesiae, Vox antiquae ecclesiae, Vox est synagogae adventum e quelli conservati rispettivamente nei mss. Arras, BM, 235 e Paris, BNF, lat. 15679 (Anonymus Sancti Vedasti); Vat. Pal. lat. 76, Orléans, BM, 56 e Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Novi 535.18; Düsseldorf, UB, Ms. B. 3; Paris, BNF, lat. 2673; Napoli, BN, ex Vindob. lat. 28.

  • English

    The paper reconstructs a research experience that led to the editio princeps or to the first critical edition of many commentaries on the Song of Songs of the early Middle Ages, and to the clarification both of the relationships among themselves and of the relationships between them and the authors already published. The state of the census from which the work had started, often proved to be misleading, as was inevitable in the absence of critical editions; on the other hand, in order to make these editions effective and well founded, it proved necessary to carry them forward in parallel and make them interact. This specific experience is an example of how the exegetical genre – but in fact every literary genre made up of texts very dependent on each other – would benefit from the experimentation of a new working method: not through limited and independent census and edition projects, but through unitary projects, to be thought in teams, with the aim of an integrated census and publication of all the commentaries on the same biblical book not yet critically published. As in the case of the Song of Songs, such an effort promises to significantly transform both the reliability of the editions of the texts themselves, and our knowledge of the exegetical history of each book (with repercussions also on the evaluation of the specific contribution and modus operandi of each author).