Le glosse antico alto tedesche alla Regula Pastoralis (Codex St. Galli 218)

Abstract

This article is about the Old High German glosses to Gregory the Great's Regula Pastoralis in the St. Galli 218 manuscript. The corpus consists of nine glosses: four verbs (ammonet-leret, suscitet-mundere, existit-hist, grassantur-grimment), three nouns (livor-smerza, percussione-harinscara, propitiationem-pisuneda) and two adverbs (minime-nuith, gratis-undurftis). The graphical differences underscore the fact that these glosses were written by different hands, so it is impossible to attribute an exact dating to the whole corpus. However, some of them, such as leret, mundere and undurftis, show phonetic changes occurring in Notker, therefore we might suppose that they probably date back to the 10th century. The relationship between lemma and interpretamenta shows congruence both in semantics and in the form. The grammatical structures of the lemmas and those of the interpretamenta are perfectly respected. The glosses are all generally frequent but not smerza and undurftis, which exclusively occur, as glosses, in this corpus.