A New Critical Edition of Heito's Visio Wettini
Update, August 2012:
I finished new English translation of Heito's Visio Wettini, which I think is rather better (or at least more accurate) than the one currently published. Alongside this, I have also completed a preliminary stemmatisation of the main manuscripts of the Visio.
These were part of a proposal that I recently sent to a press. I hope to have the book finished within a year of a go-ahead.
If you are interested in reading the new translation, please let me know: I need a careful proofreader. For the moment, here is the proposed stemma.
rpollard [at] mail.ubc.ca
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I thought that it might be useful to chart progress of this edition on a website, and allow queries from other scholars on the topic.
My new critical edition of Heito [a.k.a. Haito, Hatto] of Reichenau's Visio Wettini is being prepared from about 15 manuscripts. A preliminary study for this work, including a comprehensive list of manuscripts, appeared recently:
R.M. Pollard, 'Nonantola and Reichenau. A new manuscript of Heito's Visio Wettini and the foundations for a new critical edition', Revue Bénédictine, 120.2 (2010), pp. 243-294.
The edition began out of work for my doctoral dissertation (Literary Culture in Ninth-Century Northern Italy, Cambridge University 2009), wherein I announced the discovery of an unnoticed ninth-century fragment of the Visio in a Roman manuscript. This announcement has now been published in:
R.M. Pollard, '«Libri di scuola spirituale»: Manuscripts and Marginalia at the Monastery of Nonantola', in Libri di Scuola e Pratiche Didattiche dall'Antichità al Rinascimento (Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Cassino, 7-10 Maggio 2008), 2 Vols., edd. Lucio Del Corso and Oronzo Pecere (Cassino, 2010), Vol. 1, pp. 331-401 & Tav. 1-6.
I here is a list of the manuscripts, by the sigla that will be used for the edition:
(Saec. IX)
A: Zurich, Zentralbibl. Cod. Rh. hist. 28, ff. 96r-107v (saec. IX2/2, Reichenau). [Online]
Aug: Karlsruhe, B.LB. Cod. Aug. 111, ff. 92v-97r (saec. IX2/4, Reichenau). [Online]
D: St. Gall, Stiftsbibl. Ms. 573, pp. 294-319 (saec. IX-X, St. Gall). [Online]
L: Laon, B.M. Cod. 281, ff. 48r-51v (saec. IX2/4, St. Amand). [Microfilm + high res. images]
M: Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana A 266 inf., ff. 230r-232v (saec. IX2/2, Milan?). [Collated at the BA + high res. images]
P: Paris, B.N.F. Lat. 18095, ff. 87r-95v (saec.IX or IX-X, N. Francia?). [Microfilm, and help from François Bougard]
R: Rome, B.A.V. Reg. Lat. 598, ff. 9v-16r (saec. IXmed - IX2/2, S.W. Germany). [Microfilm]
S: Rome, B.N.c.R. Sess. 40, ff. 206r-210r (saec. IX2/4, Nonantola). [Collated at BNcR + high res. images]
T: Munich, B.SB. Clm. 18546b, ff. 10r-24r (saec. IX-X, S. Germany). [Microfilm]
(Saec. X)
Ambr: Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana I 89 sup., ff. 169r-172v (saec. X, Bobbio?). [Collated at BA + high res. images]
O: Oxford, Bodl. Canon Misc. 273, ff. 2-22r (saec. X-XI, S.W. Germany). [Collated in Oxon + high res. images - thanks to Hannah Cornwell]
Tor: Turin, Bibl. Naz. E.V.23, ff. 85r-93r (saec. X2/2, St. Gall). [Microfilm]
Tou: Tours, Bibl. Mun. Cod. 20, ff. 55v-64r (saec. X-XI, Tours?). [Microfiche]
V: Venice, Bibl. Marciana, Appendix Auct. Lat., II 69 [Cod. membr. 63], ff. 146r-152v (saec. X-XI, Venice?). [Microfilm]
(Saec. XI)
Ashb: Paris, B.N.F. Nouv. Acq. lat. 457, ff. 11v-16v (saec. XI, Tours). [Microfilm, thanks to Thomas Greene]
Co: London, B.L. Cotton Otho A.XIII, ff. 89, 91-93, 88, 90 (saec. XI, England). [Collated at the BL]
B: Brussels, Bibl. Royale Cod. 10615-10729, ff. 85v-87r (saec. XI-XII, Trier). [Reported by Dümmler]
N: Chicago, Newberry Library Cod. Ry. 3 (Case ms. f6), ff. 122v-132r (saec. XI-XII, S. Germany). [Collated at Newberry + microfilm]
(Saec. XVI)
Ds: Stuttgart, W.LB. Donau., Cod. 704, ff. 232v-238r. Saec. XVI 1/2, S.W. Germany. Copied from the Reginbert manuscript?
The Revue Bénédictine article lists several dozen more in excess of those reported by Müller (1985). Nonetheless I would appreciate any comments on the above manuscripts or possible additions to my list.
A sample edition PDF is linked at the bottom of the page. It is quite preliminary but should be updated every so often.