Searching the web for scholarly useful resources is not always rewarding
for those of us who have interests in medieval biblical exegesis, but this
time I have found a jewel (aurum in stercore inveni, so to speak).
Michael Gorman (disciple, friend and translator of the late Bernard
Bischoff, and a well known expert for Carolingian exegesis) has created a
website which is still under construction but has already a lot to offer:
"Commentaries on Genesis from Isidore to Wigbod"
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/genesis/
It is dedicated to some twenty commentaries and treatises from the 7th and
8th centuries, ranging from Isidore's highly important (but totally
understudied) Commentary which is usually quoted as _Quaestiones in Vetus
Testamentum_ (PL 83,207-424) to Wigbod's (Wicbodus) florilegium on the
Octateuch (parts on Genesis printed PL 93,233-430 and PL 96,1101-1168). For
the study of these writings, Gorman's website at present offers the
following resources:
1) A _Guide to the Manuscripts, Editions and Bibliography_ (40 pp.), a work
apparently in progress which will infallibly become an indispensable tool
for anybody working in this field: with listings and descriptions of the
manuscripts, stemmata for several of the texts, and in some cases brief
introductory discussions of their origins, sources and contents (in other
cases references to printed publications where they had already been
discussed).
2) A critical edition of Isidore's commentary on Genesis, with full
apparatus (textual variants, sources) and occasional annotations. At
present, only the first part of this edition (chapters I-XX) can be
downloaded, because the second file, which is supposed to contain the rest
(XXI-XXXI), actually contains the first part again, but I have informed
Gorman about this problem and I suppose that he will fix it.
3) A critical text of the first book of Pseudo-Bede's _Explanatio in V
libros Moysi_ (7th cent., PL 91,189-394), with annotation of sources, but
in the present version -- if my viewer does not betray me -- without the
apparatus of variants.
4) The text of the _Interrogationes de Genesi_ (not in Migne) as found in
one of three manuscripts (+ 2 fragments), Venice, Lat. II.46; a work
probably composed in the 8th century, perhaps in or near Verona.
All these come as PDF-files, which means that you need Adobe or a similar
viewer to view them and to print them out. If you print them out, be happy
if you have a colour printer, because excerpts from patristic sources are
marked by use of different colours.
Enjoy!
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