Description
Alternative title
Stephanus Langton super Ecclesiasticum
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 295
Date created
[ca. 1200 - 1225]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 40-39 lines
Height (mm)
335
Width (mm)
230
Collation
1(8), 2(10)-27(10), 28(12), 29(10), 30 (five) .
Writing
in a clear upright hand, rather tremulous
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-295 + iii-iv
Additions
There are no flyleaves and I detect no mark of ownership.
Writing
The scribe was a Robert of one of the houses called Vallis Dei. There were several of these in Eastern France and in Flanders.
2 fo.
expone
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 58 is a copy of the commentary on Ecclesiastes by Stephen Langton (c. 1150-1228), teacher, theologian and archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228). The manuscript is currently dated to the early thirteenth century, and was therefore made during the lifetime of its author; the provenance is unknown, but a scribal colophon locates the book to a certain 'Vallis Dei', a name common to numerous religious houses in the Middle Ages. Langton's biblical commentaries have received little scholarly attention compared to his sermon collections; hence CCCC MS 58 has been studied rather less than other Parker Library manuscripts which contain sermons by Langton, such as CCCC MS 450 and CCCC MS 459.
- Contents
- Commentary on Ecclesiasticus
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