• Interrogatio De Parabolis Salemonis. Interrogatio de libro Ecclesiastes.

Extent:
  • 22 leaves : parchment ; 206 x 145 (170 x 105–108) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm.
Date:
  • 1150-1200
Language:
Author:
  • Salonius, Saint, Bishop of Geneva, approximately 400-approximately 475
Abstract:
  • Salonius' writings on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.
Contents:
  • 1.1r-13v: Interrogatio De Parabolis Salemonis.
  • 2.13v-22r: Interrogatio de libro Ecclesiastes.
Description:
  • Incipit: [Interrogatio De Parabolis Salemonis] “Parabolę Salemonis(!) filii david regis hierusalem. [P]arabole qua lingua dicuntur? [G]reca, latina uero interpretantur similitudines…” -- [Interrogatio de libro ecclesiastes] 2.13v-22r: "Incipit interrogatio de libro ecclesiastes. Qvot nominibus uocatus est salomon? Tribus, sicut scripture sacre manifestissime docent, id est salemon, ydida, et ecclesiastes ..."
  • Explicit: “…hoc est renumeretur pro bonis operibus quę gessit. Explicit Interrogatio De Parabolis Salemonis.” -- [Interrogatio de libro ecclesiastes] "Quis est ergo ueraciter homo? Ille solus homo est qui deum timet et mandata eius custodit."
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from explicit of first work and incipit of second work.
  • Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 22 + i (paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
  • Layout: 30 long lines per page ; ruled.
  • Decoration: Plain red 4-line capitals on fols. 1r and 13v. Manicule (f. 17v).
Binding note:
  • Later binding. Germany, 20th century. Parchment over pasteboard.
Provenance:
  • Unknown early and intermediate provenance. Acquired by the bookseller Emil Hirsch, who sold it to Elmer Adler in October 1945 while working out of New York City. The Adler collection was acquired by Princeton University Library between 1945 and 1955.
Former owner:
  • Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 66.
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 266-267.
Alternative:
  • Expositio mystica in parabolas Salomonis et in Ecclesiasten
  • Salonius Expos. myst. in Parab. Salom.
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