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In Cantica Canticorum : with other works
Title
In Cantica Canticorum : with other works.
Created
England, [circa 1250]
Physical Description
96 l. : parchment ; 295 x 207 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Commentary by Cassiodorus attributed to Bede in incipit (f1r).
Erased ownership inscription: "Liber monastery Sc Marie ... Ste. ... wiknne."
Bookplate of Portsmouth Cathedral on front pastedown, with deaccession stamp dated 1941.
Layout: double columns of 38 lines.
Script: gothic script.
Decoration: rubricated.
Binding: medieval binding, pink doeskin over wooden boards; remains of metal clasps on lower board.
In Latin.
Provenance
From the library of the Augustine Priory of Our Lady and the Holy Cross at Spinney, Wicken, Cambridgeshire. Ex libris Portsmouth Cathedral Library. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, containing the text of this commentary on the Song of Solomon by Cassiodorus (f1-f26). This is followed by unidentified commentaries on the same text (f26-f64). The volume concludes with a copy of the Biblia Beatae Virginis (f64-f96).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2014
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Cassiodorus, In Cantica Canticorum (Takamiya MS 7). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary, Yale University.
Cite as
Cassiodorus, In Cantica Canticorum (Takamiya MS 7). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 13th century.
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