The Basler Alexander is found in a paper manuscript from the 14th century: Basel, Universitätsbibl., Cod. E VI 26. B recounts, as S, the whole story of Alexander, but
in a shorter way, even if the number of episodes in B is higher than the one of S. It is found as an interpolation into the prose Sächsische Weltchronik, in a manuscript
conceived as a universal history which becomes more and more “local”, focusing then on the city of Basel.
B’s DSE, other than the manuscript facsimile, showcases three editorial levels: a diplomatic, where the manuscript has been transcribed as faithfully as possible; a
semi-diplomatic, where abbreviations and superscripts are expanded and the most evident scribal mistakes are corrected; and a “critical”, which consists of a text with more
editorial emendations and an apparatus of critical notes. The visualization software used is EVT 2.0, but, due to some technical limitations in the synoptic visualization of
all these editorial layers and to the different configuration needs of the digital editions, the DSE is accessible via two links: one for the diplomatic and semi-diplomatic
editions, which will include hotspots with paleographic and codicological details, a representation of the manuscript quire structure via VisColl (https://viscoll.org/), and
image-text alignment; the other for the critical, which will contain a list of named entities and an apparatus of critical notes. These visualizations are complementary and,
together, they constitute the whole digital edition.
The digital edition of B is the outcome of a doctoral project (responsible: Lorenzo Ferroni, under the supervision of Proff. Maria Adele Cipolla, University of Verona, and Nathanael Busch, University of Marburg).
Here you can access the diplomatic and semi-diplomatic editions:
Here you can access the critical edition:
B – Basler Alexander
