The Glossa Ordinaria

by Smith, Lesley

• ISBN13: 9789004177857
• ISBN10: 900417785X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

TheGlossa Ordinariaon the Bible was the ubiquitous text of the Middle Ages. Compiled in twelfth-century France, this multi-volume work, containing the entire text of Scripture surrounded by a commentary drawn from patristic and medieval authors, is still extant in thousands of manuscripts, testifying to the centrality of the work for generations of medieval scholars. Although theGlossahas been the subject of modern study, it is surrounded by myth. This book, based on manuscript evidence, is the first to draw together the history of this monumental work, its authorship, content, layout, production and use. Raising new questions, and pointing the way to further research, it opens up theGlossato all students of medieval religion and intellectual history.

Author Biography

Lesley Smith (DPhil., Oxon.) is Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. An intellectual historian, she is the author of Masters of the Sacred Page (Notre Dame, 2001) and co-editor of Nicholas of Lyra: the Senses of Scripture (Brill, 2000).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
List of Figures and Diagrams	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Authorship	p. 17
Contents	p. 39
The Biblical Text	p. 39
The Sources	p. 41
Attributions and Referencing	p. 56
Developments	p. 73
How Standardised Was the Gloss Text?	p. 73
Gilbert de la Porrée and Peter Lombard	p. 76
The Agenda of the Marginal and Interlinear Glosses	p. 79
Layout	p. 91
Production and Ownership	p. 141
The First Stage: to c. 1140	p. 141
The Second Stage, c. 1140-c. 1200: Paris	p. 145
The Second Stage, c. 1140-c. 1200: Beyond Paris	p. 153
The Thirteenth Century and Beyond	p. 181
Printing	p. 187
Summary	p. 191
Use	p. 193
Gilbert de la Porrée (d. 1154)	p. 195
Zachary of Besançon (d. post-1157)	p. 199
Peter Lombard (d. 1160)	p. 200
The Psalms	p. 200
Pauline Epistles	p. 202
Robert of Bridlington (d. soon after 1160)	p. 204
Robert of Melun (d. 1167)	p. 205
Andrew of St Victor (d. 1175)	p. 208
Peter Comestor (d. 1178/9)	p. 209
Peter the Chanter (d. 1197)	p. 212
Anonymous late-twelfth-century glosses	p. 214
Stephen Langton (d. 1228)	p. 215
William of Auxerre (d. 1231)	p. 218
Hugh of St Cher (d. 1263)	p. 220
Bonaventure (d.1274); Thomas Aquinas (d.1274)	p. 223
Nicholas of Lyra (d. 1349)	p. 225
Epilogue	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 241
Index of Manuscripts	p. 257
Index of Biblical Books	p. 261
General Index	p. 263
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