Details

Subject(s)

• Bible Revelation—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Bible Song of Solomon—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Canticles—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Bookseller

• Hoepli, Ulrico, 1847-1935 [Browse]

Former owner

• Abbazia di Morimondo [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 4. [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• decorated initials [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

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

Language note

Latin;

Script

Protogothic

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].

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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.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Italy Morimondo

Other title(s)

• Cantica. et Apocal. cum Glos.
• Bible. Song of Solomon. Latin. Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 4.
• Bible. Revelation. Latin. Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 4.
• Glossa ordinaria.

OCLC

1104807357

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