Marston MS 2     Tuscany, s. XII 4/4
Canticum canticorum, with glossa ordinaria

1. ff. 1r-63r  Obsculetur me osculo oris sui.  Quia meliora sunt ubera
uino.  flagrantia unguentis optimis...Fuge dilecte mi et asimilare
capree.  ynuloque ceruorum super montes aromatum.

Canticum canticorum.

2. ff. 1r-63r  [In upper margin, f. 1r:]  Sinagoga id est congregatio.
quod et lapidum.  Ecclesia conuocatio quod rationalium.  Vtraque autem
hec portio iustorum...[in inner margin, f. 1r:]  Uox ecclesie optantis
christi aduentum...[in outer margin, f. 1r:]  Sinagoga dominum in
carne uenire desiderat.  ac uenienti deuota caritate occurrat.  Tangat me
dulcedine presentie sue...[interlinear gloss:]  delectet me et
certificet./ Incarnatione filii.  que est quasi pre/ libatio
coniunctionis...[f. 63r:]  Cum in montibus figas pedes.  dignare dilabi ad
ualles.  f. 63v blank

Glossa ordinaria; Stegmueller, v. 9, no. 11804; PL 113.1128-68.

Parchment (scraps, endpieces), ff. iii (paper; ii = modern title page,
majuscule inscription within frame:  "Canticum canticorum salomonis cum
notis interlinearibus et marginalibus/ MS.") + 63 + iii (paper),
178 x 127 (102 x 86) mm.  Written in 3 columns, with 8 lines of text and
interlinear glosses in the center and up to 26 lines of gloss in the
outer two columns.  Double vertical bounding lines ruled in hard point on hair
side.  Text lines ruled faintly in lead.  Remains of prickings in upper,
lower and outer (for 8 lines of text only) margins.
I-VII 8, VIII 8 (-8).  Quire signatures (e.g., a, b, c, etc.) in lower
right corner, verso, or lower left corner, recto.
Text written in large round late caroline minuscule; commentary in a
similar, but smaller script with many abbreviations.
One unpretentious illuminated initial, f. 1r, 3-line, yellow edged in
red, against blue and red ground with yellow filigree, filled with
stylized vine-stem ornament, white with green and yellow shading.  For
similar initials see Paris, B. N. lat. 588 (cf. Avril and Zaluska, vol. 1,
pp. 53-54, no. 90, pl. XXXIX, attributed to Pistoia).  First word of text
in alternating letters, red and brown with yellow touches.  Small initials
in blue or red.  Guide letters for rubricator throughout.
Binding:  Italy, s. xix.  Quarter bound in vellum, spine worm eaten and
peeling; blue-grey paper sides.  Title in rectangular frame, in ink, on spine: 
"Cant. Salo. MS."

Written in Tuscany, probably in Pistoia to judge from the style of decoration,
in the fourth quarter of the 12th century; early provenance unknown.  Belonged
to Marchese Francesco Riccardi del Vernaccia (1648-1719; bookplate) and to
Gustavo Cammillo Galletti of Florence (1805-68; bookstamp [effaced] on f. 1r).
Collection of Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903; bookplate stamped with
numbers "2242" and "2243" on front pastedown; see his Catalogue des livres
manuscrits et imprimes composant la bibliotheque de M. Horace de Landau
[Florence, 1890] v. 2, 46); the collection was maintained by his niece
Madame Finaly, of Florence (d. 1938).  Unidentified rectangular paper
label, white with blue frame, with "113" in ink, on front cover.
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  [text:]  [curre]mus in
                  [commentary:]  [uene]ris.  illa

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 64, no. 2.

Barbara A. Shailor