Item Summary

The Biblical books of Canticles (Song of Solomon) and Apocalypse (Revelation) with Glossa ordinaria.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Canticles and Apocalypse with Glossa ordinaria]
Call Number
Princeton MS. 4
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5x21tv43t
Publisher
[Morimondo, Italy], [between 1200 and 1300]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1200-1300
Extent
78 leaves : parchment ; 217 x 140 (130-153 x 48) mm bound to 224 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Owned by the Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria di Morimondo, near Milan. Intermediate provenance unknown. Offered for sale by Ulrico Hoepli in 1893. Purchased in the same year by the Princeton University Library. On fol. 1r is the Library accession number 88328, from 12 April 1893. Two former Princeton call numbers (fol. 1r): "Ms./5142/.217" and "Ms./5142/.1250."
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages160-161.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1r: [Preface to Canticles].
2. fol. 1r-20v: [Canticles with Glossa ordinaria].
3. fol. 21r: [Preface to Apocalypse].
4. 21r-78v: [Apocalypse with Glossa ordinaria].
Notes
Incipit: [Preface to Canticles] "Synagoga congregatio quod et lapidum. Ecclesia conuocatio quod et rationabilium ... ista suscip[iendo presentem consors effecta est]." -- [Canticles] "Oscvletvr me oscvlo oris sui quia meliora sunt ubera tua uino fragrancia unguentis optimis." -- [Preface to Apocalyse] "Littera sic ac si ita commemoret. Attendite hanc ... Intentio patienter ferre omnia." -- [Apocalypse] "[A]pocalipsis ihesv christi quam dedit ..."
Explicit: [Canticles] "... capree hinnuloque ceruorum super montes aromatium." -- [Apocalyse] "Et uidi bestiam et reges terrae."
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataoger.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 78 + i (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 13-15 lines per page ; glosses in columns on either side of the text.
Description: Damaged by water/damp, especially along edges and first few folios. Two quires probably removed due to damage.
Decoration: Canticles opens with a 3-line initial O of uncolored vine-scroll on red ground (fol. 1r). Space left at the opening of Apocalypse (fol. 21r) for an unexecuted 4-line initial A; a rough hardpoint Lombard A was inscribed later.
Binding Note
Later binding. Italy, 17th century (?). Brown calf over pasteboard. Sewn on four raised bands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible Revelation—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Bible Song of Solomon—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Canticles—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
162

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fc9c02ab-41fc-4897-aea6-6df0adda5c3d/manifest