Abstract

The essay proposes the study of the manuscript tradition of the commentary on Dante’s ‘Commedia’ known as the Anonymous Lombardus. This is a substantial corpus of Latin glosses on ‘Inferno’ and ‘Purgatorio’, dating back by the mid-14th century, transmitted in whole or in part by more than twenty manuscripts. On the basis of the ten most stable witnesses (which are accompanied by a handful of partial codes and a complete vulgarisation) two families of manuscripts emerge, one of which consists only of the ms. Egerton 943 (British Library, London), which is, due to its antiquity and authority, the text chosen for the critical edition