Summary:
Manuscript 49 contains a collection of sermons on the Song of Songs
written by Gilbert of Hoyland (d. 1172), an English abbot and
member of the Cistercian Order. His sermons were a continuation of
the sermon-commentary left unfinished by the death of Bernard of
Clairvaux; following Gilbert's own death the series was completed
by John of Ford. This manuscript dates to the first quarter of the
thirteenth century: decorated initials have been added in green and
red ink, while the latter colour is used also for rubrics and
chapter numbers. The first decorated initial has a width of nearly
the full column, and portrays a coronated woman carrying a goblet
and staff, identified as the 'sponsa Christi', standing on top of a
dragon, that forms the left site of the first letter, U(ita).
Possibly the text was copied in Flanders, perhaps even in Bruges.
An index of three leaves, written in a different yet contemporary
hand, is bound before the main body of text. One of these leaves
holds the cross-shaped stamp of Ten Duinen. The leather binding is
post-medieval, probably 16th- or 17th century. [Summary by Dr. Mark
Vermeer] Title:
Gilbertus super Cantica [titel fenestra] Note:
Folio's 1v-3v bevatten een inhoudstafel in een andere hand Topic general subdivision:
Godsdienst Material:
Perkament Extent:
165 ff. Dimensions:
290 x 210 mm Decoration and binding:
lombarden
gedecoreerde initialen
gehistorieerde initialen
Postmiddeleeuwse band Script:
gotische textualis Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.)
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.) Genre/form:
Preken Topic:
Hooglied
