medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
To start answering my own question, in part. I did not find images of
early 13th-century Bibles on-line (well, one at the Bod but it was not
a 'scholastic' one and lacked any verse indicators, but it had some
nifty pictures!) but there were some of Hugh of St. Cher's concordance
here, but not at high-enough rez:
http://www.textmanuscripts.com/home/archives/archivesdescription.php?m=69
evidently from one for sale (over $10,000--I didn't look further to
get a more precise price). Their entry no doubt didn't fully
understand Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse. "The Verbal
Concordance to the Scriptures," in _Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum_,
44, 1974, pp. 5-30, but this copy seems to be unrecorded in that Rouse
& Rouse work, which evidently lists 22 other copies.
That concordance was apparently made by Hugh and his Dominican
brothers at St.-Jacques in Paris, c. 1235-49 or inside there, and it
does refer to books by title, chapter, and letter. If they got the
Rouses right (I'm doubtful on this), then it's the concordance which
was responsible for assigning letters A-G (?) as sub-chapter
divisions. I suspect those subdivisions precede the concordance,
though.
Either way, I'll have to run down the Rouses' piece (evidently not in
their _Authentic Witnesses_), but all this is interesting for another
reason: if BA added that bit with the 9 C & 9/10 D, and if he did so
from this Dominican concordance, then either the concordance was
available (at least in part) to him pretty quickly (BA's De
proprietatibus rerum is often assumed to be done c. 1235, and he was
then in Magdeburg, German territory then, years after leaving Paris)
or he finished later than we generally assume.
However, if, as I suspect, scholastic Bibles had those subdivisions
before the concordance, then the date of finishing BA's DPR can remain
c. 1235. So I'd love to see some of those Bibles or at least have
more info about those subdivisions, as well as where Zach 10 started,
so far as they were concerned.
So, friends, what do you know about those Parisian (or otherwise)
scholastic Bibles, and do you know of any on-line?
--
Juris G. Lidaka
Dept. of English
West Virginia State University
Institute, WV 25112-1000
USA
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