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Title

De Canticis canticorum

Authors

• Haimo, of Auxerre, d. ca. 855

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Codex 1329
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944399683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299575667
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4439968

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1200 and 1230?

Place

Italy

Summary

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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• 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).
   

Extent

59 leaves : 148 x 100 (98-102 x 56-60) mm. bound to 154 x 110 mm

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.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Leather, probably 15th-century (Les Enluminures).

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).

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.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Commentary
• Bible
• Biblical

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Commentary on the Song of Songs, f. 1r
• fol. 58r — Prayer, f. 58r
• fol. 58v — Introduction to the Song of Songs, f. 58v