An edition and an analysis of Codex Runicus, AM 28 8vo (Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen)

AM 28 8vo, ca. 1300, is one of the most famous medieval Danish manuscripts and, at the same time, also one of the most unusual: it is entirely written in medieval runes. It has interested scholars and librarians over the centuries, right up to the digital turn. The aim of the thesis has been to produce a digital edition of the entire AM 28 8vo, supplied with a full lemmatisation of its texts based on the lexical entries provided by Gammeldansk Ordbog. This is the first complete edition of a runic text of considerable length using a tailored runic font (UNI Runes font) for a close transcription in runes of the texts. This thesis is developed in two volumes: the methodological background provided in the first volume serves as an introduction to the second volume. Specifically, in the first one, the manuscript is presented in relation to the context of production of the so-called runica manuscripta, and it aims to emphasise the need to create a specific subcategory for manuscripts such as AM 28 8vo. Subsequently, a detailed codicological and palaeographical analysis – traditional and with innovative methods – is included and was made possible by research on the field. Both kind of analyses highlighted and supported the hypothesis of the involvement of three scribal hands in the writing of AM 28 8vo, but also shed light on the revision processes the texts underwent, looking, for instance, at the most frequent corrections. At the end of the first volume, the criteria on which my digital Menotic edition is based, the levels of textual representation (facsimile, rune-by-rune, and diplomatic, rune-by-Latin letter) and its structure are described. At the time of writing, the digital edition is available in the Menota test archive at , but it will be moved to the Menota main archive at . The second volume contains the edition itself; the facsimile and diplomatic levels and high-definition images for each folio can be consulted at the same time. To conclude, the output of this thesis presents AM 28 8vo as it has never seen before; the interoperable digital edition includes information that is missing in the previous editions, such as runic characters and lemmatisation. Furthermore, this edition meets the FAIR principles, which guide projects within the digital humanities. Thanks to the CC BY SA 4.0 license, the Menotic XML file of the encoding is freely available for consultation, download, reusing in other contexts, and eventually continuing the work, such as updating the metadata or adding new levels of textual representation.