GLOSSED BOOK OF JOB, in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, 1st half 12th century] 262 x 151mm: 90 leaves in gatherings of eight except for 11 10 (of 12, xi and xii cancelled), apparently complete but with two contradictory sets of signature marks, beginning a and ii , on the final verso of each gathering, biblical text written in brown ink in a late caroline minuscule on 21 lines ruled with metalpoint with short interlinear glosses: justification 175 x 42mm, the longer marginal glosses on both sides of the biblical text on an independent ruling of up to 57 lines, when necessary extending across the upper and lower margins, Biblical capitals in red, gloss capitals touched red, incipit, explicit and titles in rustic display capitals, the incipit alternately red and brown letters with flourishing of the other colour, many contemporary corrections, annotations and nota marks (some staining and rodent damage to the edges of the final folios, occasional spotting and slight cockling but generally in very good condition). Old sheep over pasteboard (scuffed, lower corner of upper cover damaged and lacking leather at head and tail of spine, remains of label applied with sealing wax to upper cover, front flyleaf detached). PROVENANCE: 1. An ownership note on the final verso written in an early 13th-century French hand reads Liber sancte Marie de Columba . This was the Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-la-Colombe (destr.) founded in 1146 near Tilly, Dépt. Indre by the monks of Preuilly. Only one other manuscript with a provenance from this abbey, a 13th-century Bible in Grenoble (Bib. Mun. 5), has been identified: A. Bondeelle-Souchier, Bibliothèques Cisterciennes dans la France Médiévale (CNRS, 1991), pp.152-3. A shelf-mark, 93, is written in brown ink in an 18th-century hand on the front endpaper. 2. A stamped armorial ex libris on the front flyleaf with the arms gules , two bars argent , charged with three chalices or 1 & 2, has banderoles above and below with MODER(A)TA DURANT and EX LIBRIS DE MOJOLIS. CONTENTS: Towards the end of the 11th century Anselm of Laon began the compilation of a gloss, made up of extracts from patristic writings, to be copied alongside the text of the Bible: continued by his followers this work became the standard tool of Biblical study, superseding earlier commentaries and known as the glosa ordinaria . Although the identity of the author of the Gloss to the Book of Job is unknown it is believed to have been one of the earliest composed. Christopher de Hamel has pointed out that the page lay-out of northern French glossed books underwent a complete change in the 1160s. From then on the gloss and the biblical texts were written on a single system of ruled lines. The present manuscript belongs to the earlier type where the biblical text is written in a central column on pricked lines while the gloss is written on lines ruled closely together wherever the scribe found it necessary, and without any pricked guides. Another feature of this manuscript points to a more precise earlier date. A glossed Job in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson G.17, has been identified by Beryl Smalley as an early variation of the Gloss which was soon superseded. With a few additions the marginal glosses in the Oxford manuscript are exactly the same selection from Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job as appeared in the glosa ordinaria , but the interlinear glosses are entirely different. Beryl Smalley dated this manuscript to around 1100. De Hamel pointed out the similarity of the script and decoration of Rawlinson G. 17 with those glossed books produced by Anselm and suggested that it may have been made in Laon itself. In the present manuscript the marginal glosses are those of the ordinaria but the interlinear glosses seem to repeat those of Rawlinson G. 17, suggesting that this manuscript too may have originated during the period of development of this fundamental monastic text. C. de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible (1984
GLOSSED BOOK OF JOB, in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, 1st half 12th century] 262 x 151mm: 90 leaves in gatherings of eight except for 11 10 (of 12, xi and xii cancelled), apparently complete but with two contradictory sets of signature marks, beginning a and ii , on the final verso of each gathering, biblical text written in brown ink in a late caroline minuscule on 21 lines ruled with metalpoint with short interlinear glosses: justification 175 x 42mm, the longer marginal glosses on both sides of the biblical text on an independent ruling of up to 57 lines, when necessary extending across the upper and lower margins, Biblical capitals in red, gloss capitals touched red, incipit, explicit and titles in rustic display capitals, the incipit alternately red and brown letters with flourishing of the other colour, many contemporary corrections, annotations and nota marks (some staining and rodent damage to the edges of the final folios, occasional spotting and slight cockling but generally in very good condition). Old sheep over pasteboard (scuffed, lower corner of upper cover damaged and lacking leather at head and tail of spine, remains of label applied with sealing wax to upper cover, front flyleaf detached). PROVENANCE: 1. An ownership note on the final verso written in an early 13th-century French hand reads Liber sancte Marie de Columba . This was the Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-la-Colombe (destr.) founded in 1146 near Tilly, Dépt. Indre by the monks of Preuilly. Only one other manuscript with a provenance from this abbey, a 13th-century Bible in Grenoble (Bib. Mun. 5), has been identified: A. Bondeelle-Souchier, Bibliothèques Cisterciennes dans la France Médiévale (CNRS, 1991), pp.152-3. A shelf-mark, 93, is written in brown ink in an 18th-century hand on the front endpaper. 2. A stamped armorial ex libris on the front flyleaf with the arms gules , two bars argent , charged with three chalices or 1 & 2, has banderoles above and below with MODER(A)TA DURANT and EX LIBRIS DE MOJOLIS. CONTENTS: Towards the end of the 11th century Anselm of Laon began the compilation of a gloss, made up of extracts from patristic writings, to be copied alongside the text of the Bible: continued by his followers this work became the standard tool of Biblical study, superseding earlier commentaries and known as the glosa ordinaria . Although the identity of the author of the Gloss to the Book of Job is unknown it is believed to have been one of the earliest composed. Christopher de Hamel has pointed out that the page lay-out of northern French glossed books underwent a complete change in the 1160s. From then on the gloss and the biblical texts were written on a single system of ruled lines. The present manuscript belongs to the earlier type where the biblical text is written in a central column on pricked lines while the gloss is written on lines ruled closely together wherever the scribe found it necessary, and without any pricked guides. Another feature of this manuscript points to a more precise earlier date. A glossed Job in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson G.17, has been identified by Beryl Smalley as an early variation of the Gloss which was soon superseded. With a few additions the marginal glosses in the Oxford manuscript are exactly the same selection from Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job as appeared in the glosa ordinaria , but the interlinear glosses are entirely different. Beryl Smalley dated this manuscript to around 1100. De Hamel pointed out the similarity of the script and decoration of Rawlinson G. 17 with those glossed books produced by Anselm and suggested that it may have been made in Laon itself. In the present manuscript the marginal glosses are those of the ordinaria but the interlinear glosses seem to repeat those of Rawlinson G. 17, suggesting that this manuscript too may have originated during the period of development of this fundamental monastic text. C. de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible (1984
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