Pollard (Richard Matthew)
At the end of Rome B.N.c.R. Sess. 40 is found a hitherto ignored ninth-century witness to Heito of Reichenau‘s Visio Wettini, one of the most important medieval visiones of the Afterlife. This article is a preliminary study for a new edition of the text, and analyses the textual history of the Visio Wettini, discussing Sess. 40 as well as the copies found in Karlsruhe Aug. CXI and Laon B.M. 281. Besides offering a census of Visio Wettini manuscripts that demonstrates the popularity of Heito‘s Visio throughout the Middle Ages, the article shows that the Visio Wettini has a textual transmission more complex than previously thought. Most importantly, it is shown that Nonantola received an early copy of the Visio Wettini, and may have had important cultural links with Reichenau in the ninth century.
