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Bible. Song of Solomon

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Use for: Song of songs

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Anonymous commentary on the Song of Songs, 15th century

 part
Identifier: MS 99/ff. 1r-80v
Contents This part of the manuscript contains an anonymous commentary on the Song of Songs. The author quotes the first part of each verse and provides an explanation. The first 21 folios have a part of Sermones super Cantica Canticorum by Bernard of Clairvaux written in the margin (see MS 99/Margins for more information).The text starts on f. 1r with the following words: Osculetur me osculo oris...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including eight texts

Commentary of the Song of Songs by Honorius of Autun, 15th century

 part
Identifier: MS 99/ff. 136r-151r
Contents This part of the manuscript contains a commentary on the Song of Songs. The scribe identifies it as Prologus Honorii Pape super Cantica Canticorum (Prologue to the Song of Songs by Pope Honorius). However, the text seems to be a commentary of the Song of Songs written by Honorius of Autun, aslo known as Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1080–1154?), not the...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including eight texts