The Body of the Text: Williram of Ebersberg’s Song of Songs Commentary in Its Manuscript Transmission

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https://doi.org/10.56004/v3.1hlmr

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Song of Songs, page layout, Old High German, medieval Latin, opus geminum, Bible commentary, authorial publication

Abstract

Williram of Ebersberg presents his Latin-German Expositio in Cantica canticorum (ca. 1080) as an engagement with the text as ‘body’ which relates to the love poetry of the Song of Songs and realises it on the parchment in a specific layout. The essay argues that the unity of the text and commentary in the visual layout is transmitted differently from the eleventh to the sixteenth century and is an expression of a monastic manuscript culture.

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2025-11-13

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Laehnemann, H., & Rupp, M. (2025). The Body of the Text: Williram of Ebersberg’s Song of Songs Commentary in Its Manuscript Transmission. Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC), 3(1), 194–217. https://doi.org/10.56004/v3.1hlmr

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)

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