Alexander
- ISBN-10
- 3615003152
- ISBN-13
- 9783615003154
- Series
- Alexander
- Pages
- 161
- Language
- German
- Published
- 2005
- Author
- Seifrit
Description
Seifrit's work is of great importance as a testimony to the changes in the medieval image of Alexander. The ancient hero appears here as a figure sent by God to judge and punish humanity, the moral concept of "superbia" having largely receded from view. Alexander is seen as a quite positive figure on the whole. There were only five known manuscripts of Seifrit's Alexander epos: a Heidelberg one, an incomplete Viennese one as well as another manuscript from Vienna, one from the library of the Corsini Prince in Rome and a Munich manuscript. F. Wolf pointed out the existence of a third Viennese manuscript. In February 1873, the paper manuscript No. 2325 of the Strasbourg University and State Library was acquired for 120 Reichstaler by the antiquarian Butsch in Augsburg. According to the information given at the end, it was written in late 1466, and it is in the same hand throughout. In the year 1875, Geheimrat Strauch copied the Strasbourg manuscript No. 2325 and collated the abovementioned manuscripts, with the exception of the Roman ones. In 1912, being unable to edit a critical edition of the text due to other business, he handed his notes over to Paul Gereke, who revised them and published them in 1932 for the first time in the version presented here.
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