De Canticis canticorum

Contributor:

San Pietro (Monastery : Savigliano, Italy) (former owner)

Name:

Haimo, of Auxerre, -approximately 855

Date:

1200

Description:

13th-century copy of Haimo's 9th-century commentary on the Song of Solomon, with an unusual layout presenting the biblical lemmata in the margins enclosed in decorated circles and triangles. The commentary is allegorical, interpreting the Song of Songs as describing the marriage of Christ and the Church. Chapter divisions are added in the margins in a later medieval hand. This text is also known as the Commentarius in cantica canticorum or Expositio in cantica canticorum and has been attributed to Haimo of Halberstadt, Remigius Altissiodorensis, Cassiodorus, and Thomas Aquinas. The commentary is followed by an unidentified introduction to the Song of Songs.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Held in the library of the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter's in Savigliano in the 15th century, manuscript no. 31 (f. 1r).; Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2008.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/104

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); commentaries; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

59 leaves : parchment, illustrations; 148 x 100 (98-102 x 56-60) mm bound to 154 x 110 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f. 1r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-58r: [Commentary on the Song of Songs / Haimo of Auxerre]; Table of contents: 2. f.58r: [Prayer]; Table of contents: 3. f.58v-59r: [Introduction to the Song of Songs]; Collation: Parchment, 59; 1-7⁸ 8³; horizontal catchwords on the last verso of gatherings 1, 2, and 7 (f. 8v, 16v, 56v); modern foliation in pencil, [1-59], lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 23-27 (f. 1r-51r), with the first line above the top line, or 21-24 (f. 51v-59r) long lines; frame-ruled in lead; double bounding lines except at the bottom of the text block, where the bounding line is single (f. 1r-51r).; Script: Written in two Gothic bookhands (f. 1r-51r, 51v-59r).; Decoration: Biblical texts in margins surrounded by double red circles or triangles filled with yellow and decorated with red dots; 6-line initial in red and yellow and caption title in red (f. 1r); 2-line and 1-line initials in red (f. 1r -v); initials touched in red; additional vertical bounding lines in red ink (f. 1r-48v); angle-brackets in black and yellow (f. 51v-57r).; Binding: Leather, probably 15th-century (Les Enluminures).; Origin: Written in northern Italy, before 1230 (Les Enluminures).; The text of this manuscript belongs to a group of manuscripts known as the William family, named after William of Volpiano, founder of the monastery of Fruttuaria, about 20 miles from Savigliano (Burton Van Edwards).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Additional support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1329