Title
Quedam interpretationes hebraicorum nominum, et differentie Ciceronis, cum multis aliis excerptis doctorum tam catholicorum quam gentilium. Item expositio super Lamentationes Ieremie, historialiter et allegorice, cum aliis tractatibus [titel fenestra]
Physical location
Bruges Public Library
Associated names
Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus - 348 - 420 (VIAF: 95147024) - auteur
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Bernardus Claraevallensis - 1090 - 1153 (VIAF: 59875293) - auteur
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Guilelmus de Sancto Theodorico - 1085 - ca. 1153 (VIAF: 5724165) - auteur
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca - ca. 1 v.Chr. - 65 (VIAF: 90637919) - auteur
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Publilius Syrus - 1ste eeuw v.Chr. - auteur
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Caecilius Balbus - auteur
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Seneca - auteur
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Cicero - auteur
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Bernardus - auteur
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de Sancto Victore, Hugo - 1096-1141 (VIAF: 9865788) - auteur
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Isidorus Hispalensis - ca. 570 - 636 (VIAF: 803890) - auteur
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Ambrosius Autpertus - gest. 784 (VIAF: 85061732) - auteur
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Heiricus Altissiodorensis - 841 - ca. 876 (VIAF: 77120804) - auteur
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Guilelmus de Montibus - ca. 1140 - 1213 (VIAF: 4136834) - auteur
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Johannes Galensis - ca. 1210-12 (VIAF: 316874550) - auteur
Date of creation
12de eeuw (1099)
Origin place
[Frankrijk?]
Summary
Despite having only 99 leaves, this composite manuscript contains no less than twenty different texts. In general, they can be distinguished in four categories: texts on Greek and Hebrew names and interpretations on books of the Bible; Commentaries on books of the Bible; classical philosophers; and fragments, excerpts and collection from Bible passages. To the first category we can assign the first four texts: (ff. 1r-3v) Capitula totius uoluminis. Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum, the table of contents for the full codex; (ff. 4r-13v) Saint Jerome's Liber interpretationes hebraicorum nominum; (ff. 13v-15v) Aliae interpretationes in prefationibus quorundam librorum catholicorum; and (ff. 15v-51v) Interpretationes vocum graecarum per alphabetum. These are followed by two commentaries: (ff. 52r-68v) Lamentationes Iheremie prophetae; and (ff. 68v-73r) Epithalamium canticum amoris. Of the first commentary, the majority is ascribed to Gilbert of Auxerre. The first page might very likely be the only copy of a further unknown commentary. The second category contains several texts by or (incorrectly) attributed to the Roman philosophers Seneca (d. 65) and Cicero (d. 43 BC): (ff. 73r-73v, f. 97r) De clementia ad Neronem; (ff. 73v-74v) De remediis Fortuitorum; (f. 74v and ff. 89r-97r) fragments from the Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, the De beneficiis, and other parts of De clementia ad Neronem; (ff. 97r-98r) De quattuor virtutibus (ff. 74v-75r) Sententiae Publilii Syri; (ff. 75r-75v) De nugis philosophorum, erroneously ascribed to (the possibly fictitious) Caecilius Balbus; (ff. 75v-76r) De moribus; and (ff. 76r-81v) De proprietatibus terminorum. The final category includes fragments and excerpts from Christian theologians: (ff. 81v-84r) short fragments of sermons, erroneously attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux; (ff. 84r-89r) Annotationes in Psalmos by Hugh of Saint-Victor (d. 1141), possibly an apocryphal work; (ff. 98r-98v) Synonyma sive Liber lamentationum by Isidore of Sevilla (d. 636); (ff. 98v-99v) De conflictu viciorum atque virtutum, ascribed to Isidore but currently considered a work by Ambrosius Autpertus (d. 784); and finally (ff. 99v) fragments of texts by Heiric of Auxerre (d. 876) and William de Montibus (d. 1213). The manuscript has been written as a single unit, with corresponding layout and decoration. The text is copied in two columns, initials have been added in red, blue and green ink. Those at the beginning of a new text have been executed more elaborately, as is the case with ff. 4r, 13v, 43v, 52r, 68v, 73r and 76r. The capitula on the first leaves have alternate initials in the same three colours, with Roman chapter numbering added in red. This manuscript is unique in its background: it is the sole manuscript kept at the Public Library Bruges whose ownership can be traced to a member of medieval nobility. It had been in the possession of Theobald II of Bar (d. 1291). How the codex found its way to Ter Doest is unknown; it is known that Theobald was involved in Flemish politics as brother-in-law to counts William and Guy of Dampierre. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer]
Note
Folio 99v bevat een verwijzing naar de scriptor, Hugo: 'Vgoni requies sit celica uitaque perpes, intima deuotus qui scripsit codicis huius'
Note
Recto achterste schutblad bevat verwijzing naar een bezitter, Thibaut II de Bar, graaf en leenheer van Linay; en een mnemotechnisch rijmpje met de volgorde van de lezingen voor de verschillende momenten van het liturgische jaar
Note
Het achterste dekblad bevat fragmenten uit de Communiloquium sive Summa collationum van Johannes Galensis (John of Wales), o.a. 'Secunde partis que est de colligatione multiplici membrorum'
Note
Voor een gedetailleerde beschrijving van de werken van (Ps.-)Seneca in deze codex, zie Meersseman 1973
Topic general subdivision
Godsdienst
Material
Perkament (Wikidata Q226697)
Decoration and binding
lombarden|Q28670094
Decoration and binding
gedecoreerde initialen|Q63872683
Decoration and binding
randdecoratie
Decoration and binding
Middeleeuwse band
Bibliographic references
De Poorter, A., Catalogue des manuscrits de la bibliothèque publique de la ville de Bruges (Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques de Belgique 2), Gembloux: Duculot, 1934
Bibliographic references
Hoste, Anselm. De handschriften van Ter Doest. Steenbrugge: Sint-Pietersabdij, 1993
Bibliographic references
Isaac, M.T., Les livres manuscrits de l'Abbaye des Dunes d'après le catalogue du XVIIe siècle (Livre - Idées - Société 4), Verviers: Gason, 1984
Bibliographic references
Meersseman, "Seneca maestro di spiritualità nei suoi opuscoli apocrifi dal xii al xv secolo", Italia medioevale e umanistica, 16 (1973), 43-135
Bibliographic references
Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, Madrid, 1949-1961, 8887-8888
Bibliographic references
van Belleghem, Doenja (ed.), De Duinenhandschriften : over de manuscripten van de cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen in het Grootseminarie Brugge en de Openbare bibliotheek Brugge, Brugge: Openbare Bibliotheek, 2016
Bibliographic references
Online catalogue description by Dr. Evelien Hauwaerts (Public Library Bruges). Online catalogusbeschrijving door Dr. Evelien Hauwaerts (Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge)
Provenance
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.)
Provenance
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.)
Digitization date
2020-03-10
Alternative Identifier
B_OB_MS091