Leiden Willeram

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Leiden Willeram is an early medieval biblical commentary and one of the most important surviving texts in Old Dutch, notable for its role in the history of the Dutch language.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Old Dutch text
biblical commentary
medieval manuscript
alsoKnownAs Leidener Willeram
Leidener Willeram
surface form: Leidse Willeram
approximateCentury 11th century
associatedWith Willeram of Ebersberg
basedOnWork Willeram of Ebersberg’s commentary on the Song of Songs
contains interlinear Old Dutch passages
prose commentary
vernacular glosses on a Latin base text
verse-like passages
countryOfOrigin Low Countries
dateOfWork early 11th century
genre biblical exegesis
heldIn Leiden University Libraries
surface form: Leiden University Library
influenced reconstruction of early Dutch lexicon
study of Old Dutch dialectology
language Old Dutch
literaryTradition Germanic vernacular biblical commentary
location Leiden
surface form: Leiden, Netherlands
mainSubject Song of Songs
material parchment
originalLanguageRegion Old Low Franconian area
regionOfManuscriptTradition Northern Europe
religiousContext Benedictine monastic culture
religiousGenre monastic exegesis
religiousTradition Christianity
scriptType Caroline minuscule
significance evidence for early Old Dutch phonology
evidence for early Old Dutch vocabulary and morphology
important source for the history of the Dutch language
one of the earliest substantial texts in Old Dutch
studiedIn Dutch historical linguistics
Germanic philology
medieval studies
textType mixed Latin–vernacular text
topic allegorical interpretation of the Song of Songs
usedFor comparative studies with Old High German
comparative studies with Old Saxon
reconstructing early Dutch syntax
writingSystem Latin script

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Old Dutch hasNotableText Leiden Willeram