Rudolf von Ems, 'Barlaam und Josaphat': Edition, Translation, Critical Commentary

该项目旨在制作一个全新的学术版本的鲁道夫·冯·埃姆斯的“巴拉姆和约瑟法特”（约1220年），基于编辑的主要手稿。至今已知的51份手稿中，“巴拉姆”是中世纪流传下来的最受欢迎的中世纪版本的印度传说。然而，自1843年Pfeiffer第一版以来，该文本从未被修订过，其语言学标准今天被认为是过时的，并且从根本上缺乏允许学生或非专业人士阅读文本的现代实用功能。该项目旨在通过以更充分的历史和语言学方式编辑文本，并通过添加注释，现代德语翻译，以及考虑手稿传统，来源，类型和当前文本研究的介绍来解决这一问题。新版本将因此提供一个可靠的和更准确的文本，研究人员以及学生和读者的各个学科。语言学研究已经证实，“巴拉姆”手稿的传统允许一个版本接近手稿证人以及假设的“作者”文本。因此，该项目选择了一种稍微规范化和修改的先导手稿实践，这反映了两个语言学发现：一方面，大量的“巴拉姆”手稿几乎可以追溯到鲁道夫自己的时代，其中一些甚至保留了作者的阿勒曼尼方言；另一方面，手稿传统清楚地显示了两种主要的文本“条件”（一种主要是宫廷的，另一种是宗教的），这可以在整个文本传播过程中观察到个人的修改，而不管其系统顺序如何。就目前而言，手稿D（弗莱堡，13世纪最后25年）最适合作为主要手稿。它提供的文本总体上很可能是手稿传统的代表。它的机械损失和有意的删减都将用另一份古老而完整的手稿的文字来填补，并清楚地标记出来。因此，读者将第一次能够观察到主要的接受模式和文本的惊人移动，特别是当涉及到在学术传统中对文本解释至关重要的段落时。差异将在编辑文本下方的仪器中记录。这个全新的学术版鲁道夫的“巴拉姆”将鼓励在文化研究和学术编辑领域的新视角；目的是促进对鲁道夫最受欢迎和最有趣的文本之一的进一步研究。该项目还与最近关于编辑方法的辩论的更广泛背景有关，目的是展示如何以接近作者和手稿的方式编辑中世纪文本。

The project aims to produce a completely new scholarly edition of Rudolf von Ems's "Barlaam and Josaphat" (c. 1220), basing the editing on a leading manuscript. Preserved in 51 manuscripts known to date, the 'Barlaam' is the most popular medieval version of the originally Indian legend of the Buddha that has survived from the Middle Ages. The text has, however, never yet been revised since its first edition by Pfeiffer in 1843, the philological standards of which are today considered obsolete, and which fundamentally lacks the modern pragmatic features that allow the text to be read by students or non-specialists. The project aims to resolve this situation by editing the text in a more historically and philologically adequate way, and also by adding a commentary, a modern German translation, as well as an introduction that considers the manuscript tradition, the sources, the genre and current research on the text. The new edition will thus offer a reliable and more accurate text to researchers as well as to students and readers of various disciplines.Philological research has confirmed that the tradition of the 'Barlaam' manuscripts allows for an edition close to both manuscript witnesses as well as to an assumed 'authorial' text. As such, the project opts for a slightly normalized and modified leading-manuscript practice, which reflects two philological findings: on the one hand, a significant number of manuscripts of the 'Barlaam' date back almost to the time of Rudolf himself, with some of them even preserving the author's Alemannic dialect; on the other hand, the manuscript tradition clearly shows two major textual 'conditions' (one primarily courtly, the other religious), which can be observed in terms of individual modifications throughout the text's transmission, irrespective of its stemmatological order. As it stands, manuscript D (Freiburg, last quarter of the 13th century) suits best as the leading manuscript. The text it provides is likely to be very representative of the manuscript tradition on the whole. Both its mechanical losses and its intentional cuts will be filled in with text from another old and complete manuscript and clearly marked. Readers will therefore for the first time be able to observe the major modes of reception and the quite striking mouvance of the text, especially when it comes to passages that have been crucial to the interpretation of the text in the scholarly tradition. Variances will be documented in an apparatus below the edited text.This completely new scholarly edition of Rudolf's 'Barlaam' will encourage new perspectives in the fields of both cultural studies and scholarly editing; the aim is to promote further research into one of Rudolf's most popular and intriguing texts. The project is furthermore connected to a broader context of recent debate about editorial methods, with the aim of demonstrating how medieval texts can be edited in a manner close to both author and manuscript.