
29
Commentary on Job is ascribed to Guerric in MS Naples, Bibl. Naz. VII A. 16, foll. 3r-32v. I
have seen about three quarters of each in protographs. The commentary on Job has the same
incipit, Usque ad tempus sustinebit patiens, as that ascribed to Simon of Hinton in a MS at St
Paul’s London, seen by John Bale. An examination of the Naples MS, however, has entirely
confirmed my view that Simon’s commentary really has a different incipit, Surgite postquam
sederitis, and that John Bale saw a defective copy. The commentary ascribed to Guerric (fr.
G …) in the Naples MS is a quite separate work. Simon does not seem to have used it. The
hands in the Naples MS seem to be before 1250.
(…)
J
OB (MS Naples, Bibl. Naz. VII. A. 16, foll. 3-32v)
Prol. inc.
Usque ad tempus sustinebit patiens, et postea etc., Ecclesiasticus i.
In hiis verbis continetur tota continentia libri Iob…
Rogor per singulos etc. Prologui iste dividitur in vi partes …
Text inc.
Vir erat … Liber iste secundum Ieronimum dividitur in tres partes …
Expl.
… ingredieris in habundantia sepulcrum. Explicit Iob secundum fr. G.
La Smalley condivide l’ottimismo di Henquinet e non mostra di avere dubbi sulla paternità della
Postilla a Giobbe, di cui trascrive il commento a 8, 6; 33, 15; 5, 10; 7, 20.
STEGMÜLLER, Repertorium
15
:
2665 Usque ad tempus sustinebit patiens et postea etc. Eccli. I [29] – In his verbis continetur
tota continentia libri Job. In prima enim parte ostenditur sustinentia passionum… humiliat in
sterquilinio, sed post sublevat.
- Cogor per singulos – Prologus iste dividitur in sex partes. In prima invehitur contra
aemulos… quod velint habere.
- Si aut fiscellam – Secundus prologus. Et dividitur in duas partes. Primo enim per locum a
minori probat… quam veritas relinquatur.
- Vir erat – Liber iste secundum Hieronymum dividitur in tres partes. Primo proponitur
persona Job. Secundo eius tentatio. Tertio bonorum eius restitutio. Secundum vero
Gregorium dividitur in sex partes.
Expl: ingredieris in abundantia sepulcrum.
Napoli, Naz. VII A 16 f. 2 [3]-32: A
NON. Job; f. 32: Explicit Job secundum fratrem G … B’.
KAEPPELI, Scriptores
16
:
1368. In Iob.
15
F. STEGMÜLLER, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, s. v. Guerricus de s. Quentino, II, Madrid 1950, p.
373.
16
KAEPPELI, Scriptores cit. (alla nota 11), p. 63.
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