Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Super cantica canticorum

Authors

• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153 (http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293)

Other related names

• Sancti Angely de Vena, former owner
• ad Locum Sente Marie Gratiarum, former owner
• Sci Anastaxij de estherl, former owner
• Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich), 1869-, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/7758429)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 484/11
(Philadelphia, United States, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is an Italian thirteenth-century copy of Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermones Super Cantica Canticorum (Sermons on the Song of Songs).

Extent

224; 235 x 163 mm bound to 242 x 166 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation, pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-25 (8), 26 (3, +2), 27-28 (8), 29 (5, +2)

Signatures

Signature numbers on the last folio verso of each quire, center (some trimmed)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Bound in 16th century brown calf, tooled to a lozenge design

Layout

Single column, 25-27 lines; frame-ruled in lead, prickings visible; written area: 168 x 100 mm

Decoration

Red and green initials throughout; rubrication in red throughout

Script

Caroline Minuscule

Multiple scribes

Provenance

• From the libraries of the monasteries of Sancti Angely de Vena, (2) ad Locum Sente [sic] Marie Gratiarum, (3) Sci Anastaxij de estherl (?); purchased in 1946 from the Otto H. F. Vollbehr collection through the Bank of America
   

Keywords

• Collection of Sermons
• 13th century
• Italian
• Caroline miniscule
• Italy
• Theology

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 7v — Decorated initial H