Les interpolations médiévales dans la tradition manuscrite de M. Cetius Faventinus

摘要

The textual tradition of the Abridged version of Private Architecture by M. Cetius Faventinus, compiler of the De architectura of Vitruvius, is remarkable because of the variety of treatments that the original text has undergone ; not a single witness has come down to us without interpolations. The witnesses vary in their nature and construction along family lines : the increments can take the form of additions, citations or digressions that differ in length more or less with relation to the initial kernel. Some are drawn from well identified ancient or contemporary texts. In others, isolated fragments migrate from one collection to another. At the heart of this composite tradition are a dozen manuscripts that bear the title Incipit de architectura ualde utilis scientia de libris antiquorum qui de hoc scripserunt non paruo labore excerpta to which can be attached a manuscript that has no title and only a limited selection of Cetius Faventinus's chapters and interpolations. These manuscripts offer the text of Cetius Faventinus accompanied by the same interpolations, distributed in virtually the same way. There are two strata of interpolations in this collection. The first interpolator reworked the treatise of Cetius Faventinus such as it could be read in the manuscript Valenciennes, B.M. 337. His knowledge and his borrowings are drawn from the attested sources dating from the late tenth to early eleventh centuries, either in the north-eastern centres such as Corbie, Laon and Reims, or in the areas of influence of Gerbert. A second scribe, from the same cultural milieu, completed the collection with new recipes and annexed the treatise of Palladius, thus producing a handy anthology of practical advice on agriculture and architecture.