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Explanation of the Song of Songs

Richard of St. Victor

This book is in Latin.

The commentary on the first chapters of the Song of Songs that PL attributes to Richard (doubtful), a work on the soul’s ascent through the exemplars of the saints and the angels to the contemplation of God. Latin only, from the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 196, 1855), a machine-corrected OCR.

Contents

Source: The complete PL text with its chapter divisions. PL page breaks and column numbers are dropped, and the PL tables of chapters (which repeat the chapter headings) are not imported. The OCR carries a few residual slips.