Salzburg-Vienna manuscript

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The Salzburg-Wiener manuscript (also Salzburg-Wiener Alcuin manuscript or Codex Vindobonensis 795 ) is a manuscript from the 8th, 9th or 10th century that contains the letters and treatises of the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin . As a kind of compilation, the content is not very coherent. It is kept in the Austrian National Library .

Emergence

According to the paleographer Bernhard Bischoff , the Salzburg-Vienna manuscript was written in the scriptorium of the monastery of Saint-Amand in French Flanders and on behalf of Arns of Salzburg in 798 or 799. This contrasts with the thesis that the work was written in the 9th or 10th century.

According to Bischoff, the Gothic alphabets and runes come from a well-known master named Baldo at that time, but who must have still learned at that time, as large parts of the Greek records come from a more experienced scribe and Baldo only added to them. Due to the errors contained, the old Germanist Norbert Wagner concludes that the Gothic and runic writings were simply copied from another work.

Content and structure

The manuscript consists of several parts. The first, originally independent part contains the letters from Alkuin to Arn von Salzburg . This is followed by an orthographic treatise, the Greek alphabet with the title "formae litterarum secundum Graecos" and a Greek syllabar , the Roman numerals , the Anglo-Saxon Futhark , a key for the bonifatic notes (secret writing ), a cryptogram and two Gothic alphabets .

Scientific importance

  • The Anglo-Saxon Futhark contained in the manuscript is the earliest documented manuscript version of this alphabet.
  • The first of the two Gothic alphabets shows the original arrangement; the second gives the names of letters, their correct pronunciation and comments on Gothic spelling with Latin translations and Old High German transcriptions , and is partly arranged like the Latin alphabet.
  • The Gospel of Luke cited in the letters differs markedly from that written in the Codex Argenteus .
  • The short Gothic excerpt from Genesis serves as evidence of the fact that the Gothic Bible also contained Genesis.

literature

  • Wolfgang Haubrichs : Theodisca: Contributions to the Old High German and Old Low German language and literature in the culture of the early Middle Ages . de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-016316-2
  • Norbert Wagner: To the Gotica of the Salzburg-Vienna Alcuin manuscript . In: Historische Sprachforschung 107, 1994, pp. 262–283

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Brief description of the manuscript , gotica.de, accessed on September 30, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Haubrichs (2000), p.24
  3. ^ Gerhard Krause, Gerhard Müller: Theologische Realenzyklopädie . de Gruyter, 1993, ISBN 978-3-11-013898-6 , p. 275
  4. ↑ a b c Haubrichs (2000), p. 25
  5. ^ Friedrich Vogt:  Wulfila . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 270-286. Here: p. 284