The authorship of textual additions in the manuscript tradition of David of Augsburg
The paper examines the author’s status of textual additions which appear in singular manuscripts of the 14th century to transmit the vernacular devotional writings of German Franciscans. There are two cases in which the author criticizes his own text for its incompleteness and either adds some new content or this additional content appears in process of text transmission. It is argued that it was not David of Augsburg himself, Franciscan novice master in Regensburg and Augsburg, to whom the additions should be directly attributed. His author’s role in the supplied passages is staged by later anonymous editors who imitated the manner and style of the master contributing in such way to the development of the “Davidian” tradition.