Bern puzzles

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The Berner Rätsel (also Aenigmata Bernensia, Aenigmata Hexasticha or Rätsel des Tullius ) are a collection of 63 Latin enigmatic poems in hexametric form, which were written around the 7th century. The name is derived from the title of the oldest manuscript in which the puzzles were found, namely the Codex Bernensis 611 in the possession of the Bern Burger Library . The author of the Bern puzzles is not known. It can be assumed, however, that the Bern puzzles are based on the Aenigmata of Symphosius and, in turn, exerted influence on the puzzling poems of Aldhelm and other Anglo-Saxon authors.

Editions

  • F. Glorie (Ed.): Aenigmata Tulli. In: CCSL 133a: Variae collectiones aenignmatum Merovingicae aetatis. Volume 2, Brepols, Turnholt 1968, pp. 541-610.
  • Karl Strecker (Ed.): Aenigmata Hexasticha. In: MGH : Poetae Latini aevi Carolingi. Volume 4.2; Berlin 1914, pp. 732-759.

Individual evidence

  1. Florian Mittenhuber: Bern 611. 2016, accessed on February 11, 2019 .
  2. Codex Bernensis 611
  3. ^ Thomas Klein: Pater Occultus: The Latin Bern Riddles and Their Place in Early Medieval Riddling . 2018.