V – Vorauer Alexander

The Vorauer Alexander is handed down in the parchment codex Vorau, Stiftsbibl., Cod. 276, dating from the last quarter of the 12^th century to the beginning of the 13^th century. The manuscript represents an account of the world history, through a collection of early Middle-High-German poems (including the Kaiserchronik), with the Alexanderlied as a turning point between the Old and the New Testament, and the Latin Gesta Friderici imperatoris by Otto von Freising at the end of the manuscript. V represents the shortest redaction of the Alexanderlied, recounting the life of Alexander the Great until Darius’s defeat and death.

The edition, now in its Beta version, showcases the manuscript facsimile, which was digitised by the Heidelberg University Library (courtesy of the Stift Vorau), and the diplomatic edition, providing a faithful transcription of it. Image-text alignment is provided along with hotspots highlighting the most relevant paleographic and codicological features of the manuscript, such as marginalia, foliation numbers, or erasures and other interventions. A visualization of the quire structure of the manuscript modeled via VisColl (https://viscoll.org/) is also provided. Other than a codicological and paleographic description, the edition contains lists of named entities (toponyms, anthroponyms, and ethnonyms and religious groups). The visualization software EVT 2.0 has been customized in order to obtain a visualization of the two-column layout of the manuscript which could be aligned with the diplomatic transcription.

The digital diplomatic edition of V is the outcome of the cooperation between Prof. Maria Adele Cipolla and Prof. Anna Cappellotto (University of Verona), with the assistance of Dr. Giulia D’Agostino (University of Verona/Darmstadt) and, for the modeling of the quire structure via VisColl, Dr. Lorenzo Ferroni (University of Verona/Marburg).

Here you can access the edition: https://dh.dlls.univr.it/dse/dal-v/.