GLOSSA ORDINARIA. Pars 22. In Canticum Canticorum. Edidit M. Dove.
Brepols, Turnhout, 1997. 455p. Original gilt stamped terra-cotta cloth. Small sticker glued to paste-down endpaper. Series: Corpus Christianorum, continuatio Mediaevalis, CLXX, Pars 22. Nice copy. 'Beryl Smalley proposed a programme for Glossa Ordinaria studies as long ago as 1961, consisting of the preparation of an edition of the gloss at the time it left the hands of Master Anselm of Laon and his circle. Such an edition would, she admitted, be 'un travail de longue haleine', but 'les études littéraires en bénéficeraient aussi bien que les études théologiques'. Reviewing the situation twenty years later, Smalley regretfully noted that no one as yet has made a critical edition of any part of the Gloss. Another ten years passed before an edition of the Gloss was published: this, however, was no new edition but a facsimile - albeit a most handsome and useful one - of the first printed edition of the Gloss, Adolph Rusch's Strassburg edition of 1480/81. The present edition of the Glossa Ordinaria on the Song of Songs is offered as a contribution to the programme Smalley proposed.' (From the introduction, p.3).
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