Commentum in Cantica Canticorum

Description

Title: Commentum in Cantica Canticorum
Creator: Halgrin, John
Published / Created: [between 1250 and 1300]
Publication Place: France (Southern France?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla (d. 1237), Commentum in Cantica Canticorum. With a table of the lemmata commented in art. 1, referring to the original foliation
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in very small Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by d with a very long ascender, the southern form of tironian et, and occasional lengthening of the ascenders on the top line and the descenders on the bottom line.
First pages stained; from about f. 41 the lower outer corners of the leaves are damaged without loss of text.
Red underlining of the lemmata. Red captions in the margins. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 1.
Binding: Limp parchment, consisting of a 17th century document in English, the blank verso of which is at the outer side. Gilt edges.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. iii + 50 + ii : 105 x 75 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Halgrin, John.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholasticism
Subjects: Halgrin, John
Bible > Commentaries
Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholasticism
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: John Halgrin, Commentum in Cantica Canticorum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.