Un dimenticato problema ecdotico del Muspilli: le trascrizioni di Docen, Maßmann e Schmeller

The complexity of problems concerning the reconstruction of the Muspilli text arose ever since the editio princeps of Schmeller in 1832. It is a well known fact that the intricate events linked to the discovery of the text have extended the already long list of its ecdotic problems. In this paper three different handwritten transcriptions of the Muspilli made by Docen, Masmann and Schmeller between 1817 and 1832 are examined. Considered of irrelevant ecdotic value by Elias von Steinmeyer (1892), these three transcriptions have disappeared from the studies on the Muspilli since then. The present paper instead, will show their indisputable ecdotic merit.