The "Dagome iudex": the manuscript tradition of a Greek-Latin document. For a textual criticism approach

The "Dagome iudex'' document remains a legendary story within medieval literature, while simultaneously reflecting the cultural phenomenon of Ottonian Byzantinism.Progress of the current research in resolving the questions surrounding the "Dagome iudex'' has proved challenging, prompting a reconsideration of scientific priorities and the adoption of a textual criticism approach.Textual criticism aims to restore, as far as possible, the original work as written by its author.We have, thus, opted for the Lachmann method (with recensio, examinatio, emendatio), as it allows the correction of original errors through the conscious intervention of intermediate copyists.At this point, it should be noted that the decision to apply the Lachmann method was based on the conditions relating to the written tradition of the specific text.This means the existence of an original and the absence of "contaminatio".At the same time, the juxtaposition of the genealogical stemma of the six manuscripts, divided into two "families" of three manuscripts each, with two lines, illustrates, in the case of the Dagome iudex, the genealogical relationships and dependencies between the variants based on their "common" errors.Therefore, comparing all the variants aims to highlight the specific "common" errors to