Salzburg, Austria
The present paper offers a comprehensive discussion of editorial matters concerning the Disputatio puerorum formerly ascribed to Alcuin. It is demonstrated that the recent edition by Andrew Rabin and Liam Felsen (2017) cannot be trusted for a number of reasons. A hitherto unidentified manuscript is presented, described and shown to be of equal editorial value as all the hitherto known witnesses taken together, as it alone constitutes one of the two branches of the stemma. Various problems concerning the constitution of the critical text are discussed, questions pertaining to the work’s title, its structure, and its sources are treated. It is demonstrated that the Disputatio puerorum is most unlikely to have been written by Alcuin; the text seems to have originated in Alcuin’s entourage around the turn of the eight to the ninth century
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