"Accepto ipse calamo... scripsi in hunc modum". Autografi e idiografi rateriani

The Ratherian autographs are still a worthwhile field for investigation. Besides writings which can be easily assigned to Ratherius’s hand, still others exist which can be for some reasons attributed to Ratherius’s entourage, even if it is not possibile to positively identify the bishop’s handwriting. In the first part of the study the author examines some glosses written in the margins of Clm 14420, a Xth century manuscript containing a commentary on Terentius’s comedies, which show unexpected relationships with Ratherius’s works. In the second part, the supposed Ratherian influence on the manuscript casts new light on the short poem Tempore iam brumae. An appendix focuses on the short glossary which in Clm 14420 follows (f. 144v) the commentary and the poem. The analysis of the lemmas of the glossary shows that they are taken from a collection of hagiographical texts, including the Acts of St. John the Apostle, the Passiones of Pope Marcellus I, Cyprian and Justine, the Four Crowned Martyrs, the second book of the Merovingian Vita s. Eligii, the Vita s. Pelagiae, St. Jerome’s Life of Hilarion the Great; moreover, the identification of the source of the glossary leads to the integration and correction of some lemmas, which had previously been damaged by a laceration of the page.