Il IV Esdra nel Codex Sangermanensis XVII. Dalla "ri-attualizzazione" visionaria alla "scritturalizzazione" normativa

This paper aims at analyzing a case of individual scribal intervention on the Jewish pseudepigraphon known as the Fourth Book of Ezra as it is attested in the so-called Sangermanensis Codex XVII (9th century CE, from Saint-Germain-de-Prés). This manuscript reveals an entrepreneur (the scribe[s]? or the customer?) engaged in related typologies of individual acquisition/intervention, appropriation, modification, and transposition of an ancient Jewish text in the context of Carolingian monasticism. The analyzed manuscript reveals a case of re-formulation connected to a specific late-antique “religious” habitus, i.e. the visionary habitus, a cognitive and socio-cultural pattern from which processes of re-proposition and re-contextualization of previous authoritative accounts in and for specific environments seem to stem.