La nuova edizione critica della Recensio Wissenburgensis: Alcune osservazioni sul ms. W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Gud. Lat. 148) e sugli interventi di W2

Feller’s recently published edition of the Recensio Wissenburgensis successfully managed to update the last critical edition of the Romulus by Georg Thiele (1910). By focusing on the only witness of the Recensio Wissenburgensis, i.e., the ms. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Gud. Lat. 148, this article examines the corrections added on the manuscript by a second hand, W2. While according to Thiele these corrections drew from a manuscript belonging to the Recensio vetus, the high number of readings from the Recensio Gallicana makes the exclusive attribution of W2 to the Recensio vetus appear rather problematic. The examples in the last part of this article show that a more systematic comparison between W and the two recensiones, Gallicana and vetus, would have contributed to the constitutio textus of the Recensio Wissenburgensis, as well as confirming some editorial choices.