Focus of the ERC-Project AnonymClassic is Kalīla wa-Dimna, a work of wisdom composed in the form of parables. This work not only travelled through over 40 languages of Asia and Europe, but varied massively within some of these languages, notably the Arabic version (or rather versions) from which all later versions derive. To capture, display, and analyse these versions, and to investigate the way in which they are related can only be accomplished with digital means. Inversely our digital synoptic edition preserves the particular mode of existence of this work, namely a mouvance par écrit, and makes it possible to extrapolate the voices of copyists who took it as an “invitation to rewrite,” becoming de facto redactors. Digital tools thus open the door to pursuing for the first time questions about anonymous redaction, the status of premodern amateur readers and authors, and the relation between fiction and language register within one massive Arabic manuscript tradition.