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Origen, homilies (translated into Latin by Rufinus)

Homily VI on the Book of Judges

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Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, Herlufsholm 250.8

Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Origen, homily VI on the Book of Judges (Latin translation)
Shelfmarks Herlufsholm 250.8
Page/Folio Reference Covers
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 1201-1300
Script, Hands

The text is laid out in the intercisum format, with the homily arranged in a smaller script around the main bible text in larger letters.

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial leaf
Dimensions 172 x 249 mm
More about the Current Condition

The binding was dyed or painted black by a former owner. The text, however, is slightly raised and therefore legible using rake light, and photographs better using infrared reflectography.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red and blue lombards in the main text, some with pen flourishes.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Homily VI on the Book of Judges, translated into Latin by Rufinus
    • Back cover v IR
    • Edition Koetschau, Paul (ed.), Origenes’ Werke. Siebenter Band. Homilien zum Hexateuch in Rufins Übersetzung. Zweiter Teil. Die Homilien zu Numeri, Josua und Judices, Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte. Herausgegeben von der Kirchenväter-Commission der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Leipzig, 1899. pp. 499-501.
  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Vulgate Bible, Judges 5:2-3
    • Content Description

      Audite reges p[ri]ncipite [sic] aurib[us] p[ri]ncipes Ego sum ego sum q[uae] d[omi]no canam psallam domino d[e]o Is[rah]el D[omi]ne cum exires [...]
    • Back cover v

Host Volume

Title Aubert, Jacques, Progymnasmata
Date of Origin/Publication [1579]
Place of Origin/Publication Basel, per Sebastian Henricpetri
Remarks

The host volume belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69.

This book is part of a tranche of books acquired by Peder Pedersen Hie, who was rector of Herlufsholm between 1610-13. It bears a spine label with the letters BVH for Bibliotheca Vetus Hienniae, as well as an inscription on the title page reading Hic liber in usum Scholæ Herlovianæ acquisitus est Rectore Petro Petrejo Hiennio, most likely added later by a librarian.

The book is in a laced-case binding with three visible double endbands, decorated only with a pattern made up of two diagonal and one horizontal line in a rectangular frame. 

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