Glossa Ordinaria

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The Glossa ordinaria (pl. glossae ordinariae), Latin, "the ordinary gloss/interpretation/explanation", was an assembly of Bible glosses, from the Church Fathers and thereafter, printed in the margins of the Vulgate Bible; these were widely used in the education system of Christendom in Cathedral schools from the Carolingian period onward, and were only forgotten in the 14th century. For many generations, the Glossa ordinaria was the standard commentary on the Scriptures in Western Europe; it greatly influenced Western European Christian theology and culture. As professors read and expounded upon the Bible they would refer to these glosses, or commentaries; they also referred to them in the ordinary.

A very widely used version of the Glossa ordinaria was compiled by the school of Laon and originated in the early twelfth century, with Anselm of Laon often credited with involvement in the project;[1] it drew from earlier glosses and other sources. Before the 20th century, this Glossa ordinaria was credited to Walafrid Strabo.[2]

The Patrologia Latina, volumes 113 and 114, contain a version of the glossa which, as well as being misattributed to Strabo, represents a later manuscript tradition.[3] There is currently available a facsimile of the first printed edition of a glossa, which was published at Strasbourg in 1480/1.[4] There is currently increased interest in the 'glossa', and a few partial modern critical editions and translations have now been published.[5]

It is a parallel tradition to the Jewish Mikraot Gedolot.

Many important works would also have their own glossa ordinaria, such as that of Accursius for Justinian's Corpus or that of Johannes Teutonicus Zemeke and Bartholomew of Brescia of Gratian.[6]

See also

  • Alfonse de Leon

References

  1. ↑ Lindberg, David. (1978) Science in the Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  2. ↑ The misattribution was first shown by B Smalley, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, (Oxford, 1941).
  3. ↑ http://glossae.net/en/content/project-electronic-edition-glossa-ordinaria-bible.
  4. ↑ Biblia latina cum glossa ordinaria: Facsimile reprint of the Editio Princeps, (Adolph Rusch of Strassburg 1480/81), 4 vols., with an intro. by Karlfried Froehlich and Margaret T. Gibson (Turnhout: Brepols, 1992).
  5. ↑ See references in 'Further Reading'.
  6. ↑ Baldwin, John W., The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages, 1000-1300, pp. 72-73 ISBN 0-88133-942-3

Further reading

  • Dove, Mary (1997). Glossa ordinaria in canticum canticorum. CCCM. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 9782503047010. 
  • Dove, Mary (2004). The glossa ordinaria on the Song of songs. TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University. ISBN 1580440843. 
  • Gilbert the Universal (2005). Glossa ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie prophete. Prothemata et Liber I: A Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Translation. Studia Latina Stockholmiensia 52. Alexander Andrée (ed.). Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. ISBN 91-7155-069-0. 
  • Matter, E. Ann (1997). "The Church Fathers and the Glossa Ordinaria". In Irena Dorota Backus (ed.). The reception of the church fathers in the West: From the Carolingians to the Maurists 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 83–111. ISBN 9004097228. 
  • McDermott, Ryan (March 2013). "The Ordinary Gloss on Jonah". PMLA 128 (2): 424–438. doi:10.1632/pmla.2013.128.2.424. ISSN 0030-8129. Retrieved 2013-11-08. 
  • Smith, Lesley (2009). The Glossa Ordinaria: The Making of a Medieval Bible Commentary. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004177857. 
  • Smith, Lesley (1996). Medieval exegesis in translation: commentaries on the book of Ruth. TEAMS commentary series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University. ISBN 1879288680. 
  • Woodward, Michael S. (2011). The Glossa ordinaria on Romans. TEAMS commentary series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University. ISBN 9781580441094. 

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