PROPHETIA BARUCH

One book of the Glossa ordinaria — the whole gloss, book by book.

PL 114, coll. 64–64 · Latin from the Migne printing · New English translation · column numbers follow the original plates, not the Garnier reprint

Anselm of Laon and his school

Anselmus Laudunensis et schola

twelfth century

The masters of the cathedral school of Laon, gathered around Anselm (c. 1050–1117), to whom the making of the Glossa ordinaria on the Bible is traditionally credited. The gloss is a school's work rather than one man's: it draws its comment from the Fathers — Rabanus, Isidore, Bede, Jerome, Gregory — and names them as it goes, and it grew by accretion over generations. Migne prints it under the name of Walafrid Strabo, an ascription now known to be mistaken.

PRAEFATIO.

Liber iste, qui Baruch nomine praenotatur, in Hebraeo canone non habetur, sed tantum in Vulgata editione Vulgata editio, de qua fit mentio in prologo super Baruch, exponitur in prologo super Ezechielem. Cætera plana sunt., similiter et epistola Jeremiae. Propter 64notitiam autem legentium hic scripta sunt, quia multa de Christo novissimisque temporibus indicant.

( Antiqua exemplaria Glossae ordinariae textum tantummodo Baruch exhibent, nulla comitante expositione. )

PREFACE.

This book, which is headed with the name of Baruch, is not contained in the Hebrew canon, but only in the Vulgate edition The Vulgate edition, of which mention is made in the prologue upon Baruch, is expounded in the prologue upon Ezechiel. The rest are plain., and likewise the epistle of Jeremiah. But for the 64knowledge of readers they have been written here, because they indicate many things concerning Christ and the last times.

( The ancient copies of the Glossa ordinaria exhibit only the text of Baruch, with no accompanying exposition. )

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The Latin is Migne's printing of Prophetia Baruch (PL 114, coll. 64–64), by Anselm of Laon and his school, from the Corpus Corporum transcription. Parenthetical references in small type stand on Migne's page — editorial identifications inherited from the edition he reprinted or supplied by his shop, not necessarily the author's own; the author's own citations run in the prose itself. Every gilt column mark is an address: migne.app/pl/114/64 resolves to the first.