New forms of verse collections in the Carolingian laboratory

History of the evolution of the poems collections in the early Middle Ages focussing on Carolingian new forms such as local (or "community") collections, epigraphical collections, biblical anthologies, verse anthologies, to be compared with author collections made up by the poets themselves or by their pupils or followers. Particular attention is devoted to the MSS Brussels B.R. 8860-67, Leiden UB, Voss. Lat. Qu. 69 as well as Paris BnF, latin 1154 and Verona 90 and 88. An Appendix lists the Rhythmi of the Strecker edition with incipit, and sigla of the manuscripts containing the main textual sequences. The Carolingian age introduced both innovations that can be called “traditionbildend”, and experiments which remained isolated. The most significant typologies are the biblical-exegetical anthology, which corresponds to the new production of complete bibles promoted by the court; the collective poetry-book, such as the Carmina Centulensia, designed as a kind of community journal; the authorial collections, which were structured as ‘environmental’ gathering (e.g. Alcuin and Hrabanus), or as self-fashioning projects (Wandalbert and Audradus); and the scholastic anthologies of performable rhythmic poems.