Ab Agustino papa. Un inedito commento figurale a Tobia

The article provides a critical edition of the commentary on the biblical book of Tobias preserved in ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 15679 (an exegetical miscellany embracing the entire Bible, under the auspices of a project by Theodulphus of Orléans, d. 821). The exegetic interpretation is strictly allegorical, in a fashion unusual for the book of Tobias in the early Middle Ages; several clues suggest that the work was in fact composed before the Carolingian age. The title of the commentary in the manuscript attributes the text to the teaching of Augustine of Hippo; however, both the low stylistic level and some doctrinal awkwardness prevent the uncritical acceptance such an assumption.