NEW EVIDENCES ON THE FRANCISCAN APOCRYPHAL PRAYER «ABSORBEAT» (WITH A CENSUS OF THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION OF UBERTINO OF CASALE’S «ARBOR VITAE») Ubertino of Casale’s Arbor vitae crucifixae Iesu includes a very short prayer that had been for a long time published among the opuscula of st. Francis of Assisi. The last two critical editors of Francis’ writings – Kajetan Esser (1976) and Carlo Pao- lazzi (2009) – reject the prayer as apocryphal, while admitting that Francis could have known and used it. The paper, as part of the preparatory work for the critical edition of the Arbor, undertakes a careful analysis of the literary context and manuscript tradition of Ubertino’s quotation and discusses new evidences, by which any connection between the «Absorbeat» and Francis of Assisi can be finally excluded. It also suggests that the false authorship could have been originated by an attempt by Bernardino of Siena to emendate an erroneous reading of Ubertino’s passage. The Appendix of the paper (ed. by S. Nocentini) provides an updated inventory of the manuscripts (both complete and fragmentary) transmitting Ubertino’s Arbor vitae.
Nuove evidenze sull'apocrifo francescano «Absorbeat» (con un censimento della tradizione manoscritta dell'«Arbor vite» di Ubertino da Casale)
solvi daniele
2020
Abstract
NEW EVIDENCES ON THE FRANCISCAN APOCRYPHAL PRAYER «ABSORBEAT» (WITH A CENSUS OF THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION OF UBERTINO OF CASALE’S «ARBOR VITAE») Ubertino of Casale’s Arbor vitae crucifixae Iesu includes a very short prayer that had been for a long time published among the opuscula of st. Francis of Assisi. The last two critical editors of Francis’ writings – Kajetan Esser (1976) and Carlo Pao- lazzi (2009) – reject the prayer as apocryphal, while admitting that Francis could have known and used it. The paper, as part of the preparatory work for the critical edition of the Arbor, undertakes a careful analysis of the literary context and manuscript tradition of Ubertino’s quotation and discusses new evidences, by which any connection between the «Absorbeat» and Francis of Assisi can be finally excluded. It also suggests that the false authorship could have been originated by an attempt by Bernardino of Siena to emendate an erroneous reading of Ubertino’s passage. The Appendix of the paper (ed. by S. Nocentini) provides an updated inventory of the manuscripts (both complete and fragmentary) transmitting Ubertino’s Arbor vitae.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
