Due “nuovi” manoscritti antichi dell’Estoire de la guerre sainte (TCD 11325 e BAV Reg. Lat. 1659)

Due “nuovi” manoscritti antichi dell’Estoire de la guerre sainte (TCD 11325 e BAV Reg. Lat. 1659)
The essay examines two of the three known manuscripts of L’Estoire de la guerre sainte, a poem on the crusade of Richard the Lionheart. Both of them are interesting because of their supposed antiquity, as they are exceptionally close to the time of composition of the text. Both the fragmentary, unpublished manuscript kept at Trinity College, Dublin and the only complete manuscript preserved in the Vatican Library may, in fact, date back to the first half of the thirteenth century, no more than fifty years after the composition of L’Estoire. Codicological, palaeographical and cultural elements support this new hypothesis.