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The Medieval Church · c. 1100–1200

The Ordinary Gloss

Glossa Ordinaria

The school of Laon and later hands

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What it is

Patristic comment set in the margins and between the lines of the Bible itself, so that text and interpretation were read together on the page.

Why it lasted

The standard apparatus for reading scripture in every medieval university, and the physical form in which the Middle Ages actually encountered the Bible.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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