Resumen de 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)
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.
