Una, nessuna e centomila: le mani di Heirci di Auxerre

The work surveys the annotations in the margins of several manuscripts attributed to Heiric of Auxerre, starting with those on the folia of the Melk, Benediktinerstift, Cod. 412. By pointing out graphic differences in the annotations present in these manuscripts, it will argue that hitherto generally accepted attribution to Heiric has to be seriously reconsidered and probably rejected. In reviewing the different evidence, the study detects the hand that Bernard Bischoff had traced in a group of witnesses and had attributed to Heiric in two additional codices presently in Orléans (Orléans, Médiathèque, mss. 179 and 181); these were transcribed in the second quarter of the 9th century in Fleury and remained there, where they were annotated. The two new attributions lead to the conclusion that this hand – traditionally considered to be Heiric’s – is rather that of an anonymous scholar active in Fleury in the second half of the 9th century.