Item Summary

Salonius' writings on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.

Descriptive Information

Title
Interrogatio De Parabolis Salemonis. Interrogatio de libro Ecclesiastes.
Call Number
Princeton MS. 66
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8p58pr21b
Publisher
[Germany?], [between 1150 and 1200]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1150-1200
Extent
22 leaves : parchment ; 206 x 145 (170 x 105–108) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Unknown early and intermediate provenance. Acquired by the bookseller Emil Hirsch, who sold it to Elmer Adler in October 1945 while working out of New York City. The Adler collection was acquired by Princeton University Library between 1945 and 1955.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 266-267.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1.1r-13v: Interrogatio De Parabolis Salemonis.
2.13v-22r: Interrogatio de libro Ecclesiastes.
Notes
Incipit: [Interrogatio De Parabolis Salemonis] “Parabolę Salemonis(!) filii david regis hierusalem. [P]arabole qua lingua dicuntur? [G]reca, latina uero interpretantur similitudines…” -- [Interrogatio de libro ecclesiastes] 2.13v-22r: "Incipit interrogatio de libro ecclesiastes. Qvot nominibus uocatus est salomon? Tribus, sicut scripture sacre manifestissime docent, id est salemon, ydida, et ecclesiastes ..."
Explicit: “…hoc est renumeretur pro bonis operibus quę gessit. Explicit Interrogatio De Parabolis Salemonis.” -- [Interrogatio de libro ecclesiastes] "Quis est ergo ueraciter homo? Ille solus homo est qui deum timet et mandata eius custodit."
Ms. codex.
Title from explicit of first work and incipit of second work.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 22 + i (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 30 long lines per page ; ruled.
Decoration: Plain red 4-line capitals on fols. 1r and 13v. Manicule (f. 17v).
Binding Note
Later binding. Germany, 20th century. Parchment over pasteboard.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bible Ecclesiastes—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Bible Proverbs—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Germany
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Parchment (Paper)
Manicules

Physical Characteristics

File Count
56

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f36488ba-bf2f-4353-be78-f465bf68cbe2/manifest