Summaries, Divisions and Rubrics of the Latin Bible

By (author) De Bruyne Donatien Introduction by Pierre-Maurice Bogaert Introduction by Thomas O'Loughlin

Book cover: Summaries, Divisions and Rubrics of the Latin Bible

Extent: 602, 602 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Studia Traditionis Theologiae

Series volume number: 18

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(May 2015)

ISBN: 9782503555331

Price: $113.00

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The key to the most fundamental exegesis of the Scriptures in the Middle Ages.


Dom Donation De Bruyne’s work of a century ago has been all but unobtainable since it was first published quasi-anonymously just before the outbreak of the Great War. Originally conceived as an instrumentum laboris to the great Benedictine project to produce a critical edition of the Vulgate, it now has a new life as a unique collection of the division systems that were used with the biblical books before the twelfth century. These constitute a primary interpretation of the text, anterior to, and more pervasive in influence than any work of formal biblical exegesis. This collection makes available the raw material for a new chapter in the study of the Latin bible and the study of its reception in the later patristic and medieval periods. Moreover, it may usher in a new chapter in the history of biblical exegesis.

  • By (author) De Bruyne Donatien
  • Introduction by Pierre-Maurice Bogaert
  • Introduction by Thomas O’Loughlin