Manuscript 5 (MS5) – Bede on the Song of Songs and other texts by The Venerable Bede and others
Includes Bede’s commentary on the Song of Songs, Hugh of St.Victor’s De Archa Noe (on Noah’s Ark), De arra anime (On the Earnest Money of the Soul) and others.
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A manuscript from the thirteenth century on 154 leaves. This manuscript was probably written at the Cistercian Abbey of Lindores in Fife, Scotland, however it came to the Inn from the Fransican convent in Chester. It is written in several distinctive hands. The manuscript is written in Latin and includes penwork initials alongside the use of a punctus flexus, a medieval punctuation mark indicating short pause.
The manuscript has its original binding of tawed leather over wooden boards. It has a modern cover of brown goatskin and a brass chain staple.
More information can be found in A Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts Belonging to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn by Alfred Horwood, published 1869.
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