Ricerc@Sapienza

The Orthographia Bernensis I, so called form the ms. Bern 522 used by Hagen for its edition, is a short collection of orthograpical prescription, sorted according to the first letter, given the absence of any other element that could provide a greater consistency.; however, this text is transmitted almost unaltered in three other mss., and a fuller version is preserved in six other mss. This article presents a close examination of the differences between these two versions, and of the variants in each manuscritp, in order to clarify the relations between them, suggesting an hypothesis on the original form oh this text and on its background