The Vorauer Alexander is handed down in the parchment codex Vorau, Stiftsbibl., Cod. 276, dating from the last quarter of the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th 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 is 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 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 Proff. Maria Adele Cipolla and Anna Cappellotto, with the assistance of Dr. Giulia D’Agostino
(University of Verona).
Here you can access the edition: https://dh.dlls.univr.it/dse/dal-v/.
V – Vorauer Alexander
