Commentary on the Song of Songs and Homilae in Canticum Canticorum, written in the 12th cent. in Italy (?)

File

MS. Douce 145

Held at the Weston Library

Comprises:

(fol. 1) 'Incipiunt Cantica Canticorum', the comm, on the Song of Solomon usually ascribed to Cassiodorus: beg. 'Osculetur me ... Salomon inspiratus': with some marginal notes
(fol. 116) The commentary of Gregory the Great on the Song of Solomon i. 1-8: beg. 'Postquam de Paradisi gaudiis': ends, 'similem te attendi.'.

There is an erased note, once showing the ownership of the book in A.D. 1365, on fol. 152v.

Dates

153 Leaves

MS. Douce 145

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, no 21719

A facsimile of part of a page of this MS. is in the 1840 catalogue.

Our best descriptions for medieval items in this collection are in Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries under MSS. Douce.

On parchment, with two illuminated capitals, etc.

9 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.

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