ADNOTATIUNCULA IN LIBRUM RUTH

PL 175, coll. 96–96 · Latin from the Migne printing · First English translation · column numbers follow the original plates, not the Garnier reprint

Hugh of Saint Victor

Hugo de S. Victore

c. 1096 – 11 February 1141

Theologian and head of the school of the abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris, and the founding master of the Victorine tradition of learning and contemplation. His work ranges across the liberal arts (the Didascalicon), sacramental theology (De sacramentis christianae fidei), and mystical writing. The present piece is a short exposition of the Magnificat, the canticle of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Adnotatiuncula in librum Ruth

(RUTH. IV.) Solvebat homo calceamentum. Ille homo, qui suo jure cedebat proximo, solvebat calceamentum suum, et dabat proximo suo cui cedebat. 96CHic Booz ergo qui propinquus erat, dixit alteri qui ei cedebat: Tolle calceamentum, etc.

A Little Annotation on the Book of Ruth

(RUTH. IV.) A man was loosing his sandal. That man, who was yielding his right to his neighbor, was loosing his sandal — his own, and was giving it to his neighbor — to whom he was yielding. 96CThis Boaz, then, who was the near kinsman, said to the other who was yielding to him: Take the sandal, etc.

On this text

The Latin is Migne's printing of Adnotatiuncula in librum Ruth (PL 175, coll. 96C–96C), by Hugh of Saint Victor, 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/175/96c resolves to the first.