Augustine’s De ciuitate Dei, Book 22: Its Earliest Manuscript Tradition and Stemma Codicum

Abstract

This paper deals with the earliest manuscript transmission and dissemination of Book 22 of Augustine’s De ciuitate Dei (411–426/7). Firstly, it offers a list of the extant manuscripts predating the tenth century, highlighting their physical characteristics and indicating their paratexts (tabulae capitulorum, sets of marginalia, tituli, and particular features of some of them). Subsequently, it provides a stemma codicum based on the findings and conclusions obtained from the collatio of these witnesses. It underlines the divergences between the transmission of Book 22 and that of other books in the work, namely Books 1, 6, 13, and 18.