>
> In colore insuper variantur. Nam Nota de albis
> quoddam est album minus calidum, monachis et
> quoddam citrinum magis calidum, nigris
> quia, tu dicit Constantinus,
> omnium membrorum est penetrativum,
> sanguinis colerici generativum et
> doloris capitis conmotivum. Aliud Nota de
> vero est nigrum quod ceteris magis templariis
> est nutritivum. Aliud autem est
> rubeum vel rubicundum, et illud
> aliis magis est calidum.
>
> Does anyone have any observations regarding these marginal notes,
>esp. about when they might have been written?
Juris,
the marginal note obviously play on the symbolism of colour, here with
regard to the colour of garments worn by different orders: black for the
Benedictines (?), white for the Cistercians, red for the Templars because
they wore a red cross.
Christoph
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