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 FIREFLY COLLECTION No.1

VIKING
SUMMER
5.SS-PANZER-DIVISION IN POLAND, 1944
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY
DENNIS OLIVER

SUPERBLY DETAILED COLOUR PROFILES, BLACK AND WHITE ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHS,

COMPREHENSIVE ORGANISATIONAL AND EQUIPMENT CHARTS, UNIT HISTORY AND MAPS
© ADH Publishing 2012
FIREFLY COLLECTION
VIKING SUMMER
5.SS-PANZER-DIVISION IN POLAND, 1944
Written and illustrated by Dennis Oliver
ISBN 978-0-9806593-9-9
Acknowledgments. The author and publisher would like to thank the staff of the National Library of Australia, Canberra, the State Library of Queensland and
Darren Neeley at Fox Company Research, Maryland for their invaluable assistance and advice. We would also like to thank all those who contribute to the Axis
History Forum, the Feldgrau Forum, Panzer-Archiv.de, Die Deutsche Wehrmacht website, the Wiking Ruf website, the Panther1944 website and Brett Green at
Missing Lynx. We also wish to thank Glenn Bartolotti for permission to reproduce the photograph of his scale model Panther ausf A which can also be seen at
mysite.verizon.net/ressi2si/armormodelsbyglennbartolotti. In addition to the websites mentioned above, the following printed works were also consulted:
Die Truppenkennzeicen der Verbände und Einheiten der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS und ihre Einsätze im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945. Schmitz, P
and Theis K-J. Verweht sind die Spuren. Proschek, R. Wenn Alle Brüder Schweigen. Hausser, P et al. Viking Panzers: The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the
East in World War II. Klapdor, E. Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS, 1943-45. Fey, W and Henschler, H. Panther and its variants. Spielberger, W. PzKpfw. V Panther
Vol 1. Trojca, W. PzKpfw. V Panther Vol 2. Trojca, W. PzKpfw. V Panther Vol 3. Trojca, W. PzKpfw. V Panther Vol 4. Trojca, W. PzKpfw. V Panther Vol 5. Trojca, W.
PzKpfw. V Panther Vol 6. Trojca, W. PzKpfw. V Panther vol 7. Trojca, W. PzKpfw. V Panther vol 8. Trojca, W. Panther Variants In Color. Trojca, W. Panther Ausf A.
Gawrych, W. Pz.Kpfw. V Panther. Wróblewski, R and Wrobel, A. Panzer Tracts No. 11-1. Panzerbeobachtungswagen. Jentz, T. L. and Doyle, H. L. Panzer IV and
its Variants. Spielberger, W J. Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf G/H/J. Vol 2. Trojca, W. Panzerkampfwagen IV. Schiebert, H. Der Panzerkampfwagen IV. Fleischer, W. Pz.Kpfw.
IV Ausf G, H and J. Jentz, T and Doyle, H. Panzerjäger und Sturmgeschütze. Schiebert, H. German Sturmartillerie At War. Vol 2. De Sisto, F. V. Sturmartillerie.
Spielberger, W.J and Feist, U. Sdkfz 251. Ledwoch, J. Panther. Anderson, T. Panzer IV. Hjermstad, K. Sdkfz 251. Kliment, C. Battle On Two Fronts 1944-45. Cockle,
T.War On Two Fronts. Michulec, R. Panzertruppen. Jentz, T. L. (Editor) Deutsche Kampfpanzer in Farbe 1939-45. Scheibert, H. Nuts and Bolts Vol 6.
Kanonenwagen. Terlisten, D. To The Last Bullet. Germany’s War on 3 Fronts. Part 1. The East. Oliver, D. Endkampf. Fritz,S.
The illustrations in this book were all created using contemporary photographs as a reference and we have attempted to create as faithful a reproduction as
possible - including the shape and position of any camouflage pattern, markings and the style of lettering used. In the few cases where we have been forced to
speculate we have tried to make this clear. Where possible, we have reproduced the photograph or photographs so used, however copyright and budgetary
restrictions and do not always allow this.

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Picture Credits. All photographs National Archives and Record Administration, except: Bundesarchiv: 9,10,13,15,16,18,19,31,33; J. Howard Parker: 3,11,13,15,18,20,22; Author’s
Collection: 2,4,21,29,30; V.I.Polokov: 4,11,12,14,17,19,20,33.Ullstein via K.Berne: 5; K.Berne: 19.
Front cover: Sdkfz 251/9. III.Abteilung, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 Germania. Poland, August 1944.

Above, left: Obersturmbannführer Johannes Mühlenkamp, commander of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. A highly

decorated officer, Mühlenkamp led the regiment throughout most of 1944 until 10 September, when he took
command of the division. Above, right: A Pzkw V Panther ausf A of 8.Kompanie, numbered 832, photographed
during the fighting east of Warsaw in August 1944. Note the unditching beam held in its purpose built bracket on the
rear hull. By late 1944 most Wiking Panthers were fitted with a similar arrangement. Above: An Fi-156 Fieseler Storch
liaison aircraft, possibly a C-2 or C-3 model. Gruppenführer Herbert Gille used this particular machine when he
commanded the Wiking division and later as commander of IV.SS-Panzerkorps. Although we cannot be certain, this may
be the aircraft he used to fly into the besieged city of Kovel.
The Year 1944 would prove to be a momentous one for the German Army in the 8.Kompanie, the latter under Obersturmführer Karl Nicolussi-Leck, arrived at
East. Although the Wehrmacht had suffered a series of setbacks and defeats Maciejów, near Chelm, with a full complement of Panther tanks. The other
during the previous twelve months, many Germans were still confident at the companies would arrive in the following days as transport was available (3) but
end of 1943 that the front in the East could at least be held and that the Nicolussi-Leck's would be the only Wiking tanks available for an immediate
anticipated Allied invasion in the West, when it came, would be defeated. By the attempt to establish contact with the Kovel defenders. A detailed account of this
end of 1944 all but the most optimistic, or fanatical, had lost faith in the operation and a map of the Kovel area can be found on page 2.
promised final victory. Although the tanks of 8.Kompanie were a welcome addition to the Kovel
In the East the war would be fought on a gargantuan scale and Germany came defences, a secure and permanent corridor to the town had not been opened
to rely to an ever greater extent on the Army's highly mobile - if increasingly and the siege continued. On 2 April a further attack was ordered, this time
depleted - armoured units, including those of the Waffen-SS. Among the latter, supported by Obersturmführer Otto Schneider's 7.Kompanie, and again the
the soldiers of 5.SS-Panzer-Division Wiking would play an important role. Germans were unsuccessful.
On Friday 3 March 1944, the badly battered remnants of the division that had By now however the units of LVI.Panzerkorps had been ordered to assist in the
led the breakout from the encirclement at Cherkassy (1) arrived in Tomaszów in relief attempts and the following day another attack, this time supported by
Poland, approximately 50 kilometres south-west of Warsaw. Tomaszów was far 6.Kompanie with units of the army's 5.Panzer-Division was launched towards a
behind the front line and the men were expecting a period of rest and refitting Soviet strongpoint at Kruhel, about 6 kilometres north-west of Kovel. Amid
and the possibility of home leave. The situation was however far from stabilised conflicting reports from the units involved (4) the attack was called off at about
with every man needed and disappointingly all leaves were cancelled, except 5.30pm. On 4 April, after a two hour artillery bombardment, the attacks
for the wounded and the Germanic volunteers. resumed with 5.Kompanie supporting II.Abteilung of the Germania Regiment
Since late 1943, II.Abteilung of the division’s SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 had been and 7.Kompanie advancing behind III/Germania, II/Westland, Grenadier-
training in France with their newly issued Panther tanks and was now alerted on Regiment 431 and Ski-Jäger-Regiment 2.
18 March 1944, that they should be ready for a move to the East. On the same The Panthers of 6.Kompanie started from their positions of the previous day,
day, the regiment's I.Abteilung began moving by rail to Chelm, some 200 this time in concert with the tanks of 4.Panzer-Division, and their initial
kilometres further east of Tomaszów, to be re-equipped with men and vehicles. objective of Kruhel was quickly taken, securing an important stretch of solid
The first battalion, commanded by Sturmbannführer Paul Kümmel, had ground - a rare commodity in the marshy Kovel area. The advance of the other
suffered heavily in the Cherkassy fighting and although new vehicles would two companies however was not as successful, stalling in front of a heavily
eventually arrive, the lack of trained personnel to operate them, particularly defended wooded area and it was not until a concentrated Stuka attack was
experienced NCOs, would remain a constant problem. Indeed Kümmel's men called in that the Germans were able to penetrate the woods - although the
lacked such basic requirements as uniform items, razor blades and even Russians remained in control of much of the area. The units of LVI.Panzerkorps
adequate footwear. On 22 March, sufficient crews for twenty-two tanks were had however met with greater success, the headquarters assuring the Kovel
sent to the Magdeburg-Königsborn training facility in Germany to take charge defenders by radio as early as 9.30am that this attack would be ‘the decisive
of their new vehicles. On 31 March, Kümmel's battalion received twenty-two thrust'. The tanks of 4.Panzer-Division entered Moshchena at around noon (5)
Pzkw IV tanks, two being allocated to the battalion headquarters with the four to the north of Kovel and advanced to Dubove, less than a kilometre from the
companies receiving five each. defensive perimeter. By the evening the tanks had fought their way to the
In late March, Kampfgruppe Richter - made up from the remnants of Wiking’s railway line west of the town. In the meantime the Wiking Panthers had
Germania and Westland Panzergrenadier regiments, the division's artillery reached Moshchena and from there drove straight towards Kovel.
regiment, the anti-aircraft and reconnaissance battalions and commanded by At first light the next day, the battalion - by now led by the regiment's
Standartenführer Joachim Richter from the artillery regiment - made the first commander, Obersturmbannführer Johannes Mühlenkamp - brushed aside
attempts to break the Russian encirclement of Kovel, an important rail junction their opposition and reached the railway crossing just outside the perimeter
in present day Ukraine, almost exactly halfway between Kiev and Warsaw (2). and within sight of the German defenders. As if to emphasise that the battle
The meagre German forces inside the Kovel perimeter - which included a was far from won, Mühlenkamp's tank was immobilised by a mine and he was
number of hastily armed employees of the German Railways - had been forced to withdraw to Moshchena which had become the battalion's
ordered to hold their positions despite the personal intervention of the Wiking headquarters. By early morning the Germans were in control of Dubove and by
division's commander, Gruppenführer Herbert Gille, who flew to Berlin to plead 2.00pm had established contact with the units inside Kovel. In three weeks of
the case for withdrawal but was refused an audience with Hitler. Returning to heavy fighting, in atrocious weather and facing far superior numbers, the
the front, Gille decided that he could best assist the defence from inside the city Germans had managed to deny the city to the Russians and significantly delay
and together with Hauptsturmführer Westphal landed in his personal Fieseler the planned Soviet offensive to take Brest.
Storch aircraft at around noon on 16 March. The decision to remove himself The most important task now was to keep the corridor open as small but
from the division at such a critical time, criticised in some accounts, illustrates determined pockets of Russian troops remained in what was now the German
Gille's confidence in the abilities of his regimental and battalion commanders. rear. Indeed, the 5.Kompanie Panther commanded by Untersturmführer Horst
There is no doubt that his presence inside the city contributed greatly to the Niemann which had been left to guard the regimental commander's tank
morale of the defenders and that the name Kampfgruppe Gille was reported that it was being fired on by Russian anti-tank guns situated over
intentionally chosen to reassure them that they would not be abandoned. 2,000 metres to the west and it was not until 6 April that Mühlenkamp's tank
On Monday 27 March, the headquarters of the tank regiment and the tanks of could be recovered. ..........continued on page 4

A Pzkw V Panther ausf A of 8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 and an Sdkfz 251/1 halftrack from
III.Abteilung, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 Germania. This photograph was taken in August during
the battles east of Warsaw and the tank company commander, Karl Nicolussi-Leck, can be seen in the
Panther’s cupola facing the camera. This tank is shown and discussed further on page 17 and the
halftrack, numbered 201, is depicted on page 22.
1
THE ‘PANTHER POUNCE’ AT KOVEL
Kovel had been surrounded since 16 March 1944 and an early attempt to
break the encirclement had been halted in front of the villages of Novi
Koshary and Stari Koshary. On the afternoon of 27 March, the II.Abteilung
of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 - which had been training on its new Panther
tanks in France - began to arrive and on the following day the regiment’s
commander, Johannes Mühlenkamp, briefed the commander of
8.Kompanie, Obersturmführer Karl Nikolussi-Leck, on his part in the
planned relief attempt.

Kovel and the surrounding area as it appeared in 1942, based on a Soviet military survey map published in
that year. The names of towns, villages and the suburbs of Kovel are those in present usage. Railway lines
are shown in a dark shade while roads and towns are shown in a lighter grey. Areas of marshy terrain
dominate all the approaches to the town and the darker shades represent woodland. Not shown is the
extensive canal system which covered most of the area and fed into the Turiya River. The German
defensive perimeter around Kovel as it was on 4 April, is shown as a broken line. At right: A rather poor
quality photograph but one that is worth reproduction as it shows a Wiking Panther in the streets of
Kovel. In another image of this tank, taken from the same series, it is possible to make out what is almost
certainly an 8.Kompanie number on the turret side.
With sixteen serviceable tanks, 8.Kompanie reached their start positions near
Stari Koshary around 11.00am on the morning of Wednesday 29 March,
guided by Sturmbannführer Franz Hack, commander of the III.Abteilung of SS-
Panzergrenadier-Regiment Germania. On the advice of Hack, Nicolussi-Leck Russian position held only by a few determined machine gunners who were no
decided to eliminate a Russian anti-tank gun position situated approximately match for the Panthers. From here Nicolussi-Leck ordered his men to advance
one thousand metres east of Stari Koshary which controlled one of the few north to the rail line, just a short distance away, and to head towards Cherkasy.
areas of solid ground on either side of the rail line. The commander of the Only a few metres further on, the marshy ground gave way to more solid
Germania regiment, Obersturmbannführer Dorr who was also present, terrain and the company's second and third platoons were now able to fan out
agreed and Nicolussi-Leck made ready to move out. Almost immediately and advance in line. By now however the snow was falling harder and visibility
Mühlenkamp arrived and countermanded the order, insisting that any was becoming a problem with some crews complaining that they could not
attempt to take the Russian position would be costly and reduce the already see further than the muzzles of their own guns.
meagre forces available to break the encirclement. He then ordered Nicolussi-
Leck to advance parallel to the railway line towards Cherkasy and from there As the weather grew worse, the lead tank of Untersturmführer Immelmann
to Kovel via Moschchena. stumbled into more marshy ground and became hopelessly bogged. Within a
At around noon the tanks moved off with the Panther of Hauptscharführer short time four more tanks became bogged and Nicolussi-Leck, also
Eugen Faas, the commander of the first platoon, in the lead. On the right were concerned that the accompanying infantry were being left too far behind,
the grenadiers of Hack's battalion supported by ten assault guns of leichte- ordered these tanks to guard his right flank which faced a wood, as a static
Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 190. On Nicolussi-Leck's left were volunteers from defence point under the command of Unterscharführer Kasper. The remaining
Grenadier-Regiment 434 of 131.Infanterie-Division commanded by tanks resumed the advance and soon came under fire from Russian anti-tank
Hauptmann Bolm with a further seven assault guns. Light snow had begun to guns. In his after action report Nicolussi-Leck stated that the Russian position
fall and almost immediately sporadic artillery fire commenced with shells was some 600 metres west of Cherkasy which would mean that his remaining
landing either side of the tanks, prompting the Panthers to increase their tanks must have now been across the railway line. However, later in the same
speed. report he mentions that the attack on the town was carried out by crossing the
Within minutes the Russians were firing with every gun they possessed railway embankment. This suggests that the Russian anti-tank guns were
including anti-tank guns and heavy mortars. From his advanced position, actually located not directly to the west, but south-west of Cherkasy on the
Hauptscharführer Faas reported that muzzle flashes from Soviet anti-tank southern side of the rail line and there was indeed a narrow stretch of solid
guns were visible in front and off to his right. Despite the swirling snow the ground there rising towards the embankment, just before the line turns south
Panthers of his platoon were able to identify the Russian position and towards Cherkasy-Volinski station.
returning fire, silenced the enemy guns. This was in fact the first Soviet
defensive line and must have been approximately half way between Koshary Advancing on the Russians at maximum speed three Panthers were hit in quick
and Cherkasy-Volinski railway stations, possibly along the road to Volya- succession - although at least one account suggests that the third was halted
Kovelska. by a mechanical failure. A lucky shot from one of the Panther's guns - possibly
As the tanks ground forward, Faas called Nicolussi-Leck to report that Russian fired from Eugen Faas' tank - detonated the Russian’s reserve ammunition in a
soldiers could be seen leaving their trenches for the shelter of a nearby wood. mighty explosion and at that moment the Panthers of the third platoon, which
The company commander now took the lead and drove straight into the Nicolussi-Leck had sent to the right to outflank the Soviet position, opened fire
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 Two Panther tanks photographed on the Kovel-Chelm rail line
during the salvage operation that took place quite some time after
the area was secured. In another photograph of the vehicle at left,
taken from the same series, the number 811 can clearly be seen on
the turret side identifying this as the tank of Eugen Faas which
was disabled by a mine early in the morning of 30 March. The
vehicle pictured below was positioned immediately in front of
Faas’ Panther and may be the tank of Scharführer Herberts.

destroying all twelve Russian guns. As the remaining eight Panthers drove into During the night three of the bogged tanks were recovered and early on the
the now deserted Russian trenches at exactly 2.30pm, the weather morning of Thursday 30 March, in complete darkness, the Panthers resumed
deteriorated to such an extent that Nicolussi-Leck called a temporary halt to their advance towards Kovel. Once again the commander of the first platoon,
the attack. In a radio message to Mühlenkamp he reported that his remaining Eugen Faas, was in the lead. Almost immediately Faas reported that muzzle
tanks had reached high ground, some 600 metres to the west of Cherkasy, and flashes were visible some 400 metres west of the Cherkasy-Volinski railway
that the accompanying infantry were fighting their way towards his position. station and directed his gunner onto a target which was at three o'oclock to his
tank. This suggests that the Panthers were moving along the main road out of
The Panthers remained on the high ground for some 45 minutes and in that Cherkasy which heads south-east and leads to the station and not directly
time were able to send out patrols to reconnoitre the surrounding area. south towards the embankment which would have been the more direct but
Realising now that Cherkasy was bordered by swamps on three sides perhaps less reliable route. After destroying two T-34 tanks the lead Panthers
Nicolussi-Leck decided that an attack towards the north-east, directly into the reached the embankment but within a hundred metres, Faas' tank was
town was impossible. Considering the options available to him, he directed his disabled by a mine, his vehicle holding up the entire column. That Faas was
remaining tanks to advance and take Cherkasy by an enveloping move on his able to reach the railway embankment is confirmed by photographic
right. However, after moving only a short distance, three more tanks became evidence.
bogged and it was obvious that this direction was also untenable. Undetered,
Nicolussi-Leck swung his company to his left and crossed the railway The remaining tanks moved to the right - that is the southern side - of the rail
embankment and although the Panthers immediately came under heavy fire line to bypass the disabled tank and almost immediately another Panther, this
they were at least on solid ground. vehicle commanded by Scharführer Herberts, was halted by a mine. Leaving
the safety of his tank and coming forward on foot, Nicolussi-Leck ordered Faas
Driving straight towards Cherkasy the Panthers fired on the move as fast as to take command of a strongpoint using the two disabled Panthers and sixteen
their guns could be loaded. Before the town could be reached eight German grenadiers. The remaining infantry had formed a defensive screen running
tanks were hit and immobilised but managed to keep firing and support the through the buildings of the railway station and the wooded area to the east.
others. With the entire western end of the town in flames and the defenders In the meantime a squad of engineers had been sent forward to clear any
streaming towards the east the Panthers, led by Hauptscharführer Faas, additional mines and although a path was secured it was not before 6.00 am.
entered Cherkasy urged on by their company commander whose tank was It was now light and Nicolussi-Leck’s tanks were visible to every Russian in the
now stuck in soft mud. Without waiting to consolidate Nicolussi-Leck sent four area.
tanks towards Moschena, their next objective. Meanwhile Hauptmann As the last mine was being cleared Hauptmann Bolm advised Nicolussi-Leck
Bolm’s infantry had fought their way through to Cherkasy and now cleared the that he had received an order that the tanks were not to advance any further.
remaining Russians from the town. Stating that he could not remain where he was, Nicolussi-Leck ignored Bolm
Although the tanks that had moved off towards Moschena had destroyed and ordered his tanks to push forward towards KoveI. There is some debate
several anti-tank guns, two had become stuck in the mud and at 6.00pm over where the order originated with some accounts stating that it came from
Mühlenkamp directed Nicolussi-Leck to remain in Cherkasy and screen north, within Kovel via radio and others that it emanated from regimental
towards Moschena, and east towards Kovel. Much of the infantry which were headquarters and was delivered directly to Nicolussi-Leck. The latter seems
allocated to support the attack were still far to the west and once darkness fell unlikely as Nicolussi-Leck later said in his defence that he was not obliged to
were only able communicate by signal flare. At 7.00pm Nicolussi-Leck follow any orders given by Bolm. In any case, Nicolussi-Leck ordered his
reported that he had six combat ready tanks but was confident of recovering remaining tanks forward.
four of the vehicles which were stuck in the swampy ground. He was however With the company commander's tank in the lead the column had reached a
concerned that his supplies of fuel and ammunition were unlikely to be point less than 2,000 metres from the city when Nicolussi-Leck received a
replenished before the attack resumed the next day. message from Scharführer Möller commanding the last tank in line. A
despatch rider had caught up with the company with an order that the tanks
That night Nicolussi-Leck determined that the next day's attack would follow were to halt. As Nicolussi-Leck listened to Möller his tank began to take fire
the railway embankment all the way into Kovel. Although risky, his plan would from the Russian positions immediately to his front and at that moment he
conserve what fuel the tanks had left and would ensure that they were at least heard one of his platoon commanders, Oberscharführer Jauss, state that
able to operate on solid ground all the way to their objective. Further, he these Russian troops were blocking the north-west exit from Kovel. Realising
reasoned that the Russians would expect his force to advance towards that if Jauss were correct the German defenders of Kovel were just on the other
Moschena - particularly in light of his reconnaissance towards that town. He side of this Russian position, Nicolussi-Leck ignored the order, told his gunner
also believed that it was significant that his bogged tanks had not received any to engage the enemy and drove straight at the Russian guns.
enemy fire from the south or east despite their vulnerable condition.
Therefore, despite the obvious danger, the railway embankment seemed to Although the Panthers received heavy fire from their left they were shielded
offer the best chance of success and at 10.00pm Nicolussi-Leck informed from the worst effects by the snow which had begun to fall heavily once again.
Mühlenkamp of his intentions. Unknown to Nicolussi-Leck, for he never Surging forward the Panthers crushed the Soviet guns under their tracks and
received the message, an order was sent from the regimental headquarters at shortly, above the roar of their engines, could hear voices calling to them in
1.30am the next morning directing him to withdraw to Stari Koshary and for German. At exactly 7.30am the tanks of 8.Kompanie had reached the railway
the men of Grenadier-Regiment 434 to return to their unit. By the time a radio loop south of Volyn and the defensive perimeter of Kovel.
set powerful enough to reach the company could be found the Panthers were By 8.10am Nicolussi-Leck, with seven serviceable tanks, was able to report to
already on the railway embankment just 2 kilometres outside Kovel. Gruppenführer Gille.
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 Above: Pzkw V Panther tanks of Karl Nicolussi-Leck’s 8.Kompanie photographed during the fighting in eastern Poland in July or August 1944. At right: The
Panzerkampfabzeichen or Tank Assault Badge. Pictured here is the version introduced in June 1943, awarded for taking part in twenty five actions.
On 10 April, the tanks of 6.Kompanie supported an attack by Panzergrenadier- Krasnik in the south. Although the southern operation failed to make contact
Regiment 33 towards the north-east of Kovel which pushed the Russians back a with any partisans, the German units in the north, including Hack's men,
further 6 kilometres. Two days later they successfully fought off a fought a particularly vicious battle near Rablów against units of the Polish
counterattack, destroying fifteen Soviet tanks. People's Army and at least one Soviet partisan group moving west towards
After a few days rest, 5.Kompanie and 6.Kompanie were ordered to clear the Parczew.
western parts of the city and secure a bridgehead on the Turiya River. The During this time the first battalion of the tank regiment continued to receive
Germans had been unable to find a suitable place to ford the river and it was replacement crews and train on their new tanks. By the end of May, the
decided that Pionier-Bataillon 50 would construct a bridge under cover of battalion had twenty-seven Pzkw IV tanks on hand, presumably receiving five
darkness during the night of 16-17 April. All went well until the engineers were tanks since 31 March - still far short of the authorised number. There were in
spotted by a Russian machine gun post which immediately opened fire and as any case insufficient numbers of personnel to man any replacement vehicles
other guns joined in a ferocious fire-fight was soon underway. By 6.35am and as an interim solution, on 1 June, the division's Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 5
Kampgruppe Gille, directing the operation from inside Kovel, was calling for was disbanded and twenty-two Sturmgeschütz IV assault guns and their crews
Stukas to attack targets all along the Kovel-Turzys’k road. By 9.00am however, were transferred to the tank battalion. However, it would be some weeks
through sheer perseverance, tanks of 6.Kompanie had managed to find a before and tanks of the first battalion would be ready for combat.
crossing and link up with a Kampfgruppe under Sturmbannführer Hans Dorr,
commander of the Germania regiment. Joined by the Panthers of 5.Kompanie, On 22 June 1944, Hauptsturmführer Alois Reicher assumed command of the
the German units now turned south and drove the Russians out of the city second battalion of the tank regiment from Otto Paetsch who left the division
reaching as far as Lubliniec, some 4 kilometres to the south-west. The next day to take charge of SS-Panzer-Regiment 10 of the Frundsberg division which was
was spent taking stock and preparing for the final operations that would clear about to depart for Normandy. On the same day the Russians launched a major
the Kovel area of Soviet troops. On 18 April, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 reported offensive codenamed Operation Bagration (8). Alerted at once, a
that only 40 serviceable Panthers were available and it would be some days Kampfgruppe under the command of Obersturmbannführer Mühlenkamp left
before the regiment went into action again (6). the training area on 25 June, headed once again for the area around Kovel that
the division had fought over in March and April.
On 27 April, in an operation codenamed 'Ilse', the tanks of the regimental
headquarters, and the second battalion - minus Schneider's 7.Kompanie - set By 3 July, Mühlenkamp's battle group (9) was concentrated near Maciejów
off towards Lubliniec. The tanks were supported by an armoured engineer about 80 kilometres west of Kovel and almost directly south of Chelm. Over the
company, one company from Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung 49 of 4.Panzer-Division next days the Wiking tankers exchanged fire with the Russians in a series of
and a platoon from Flak-Regiment 64. The battalion maintenance company minor skirmishes north of the Kovel-Chelm railway line. On 5 July Reicher
had worked feverishly in the preceding days and including eight new tanks reported to Mühlenkamp that a number of Russian tanks and supporting
received on 17 April, a total of fifty Panthers - including Mühlenkamp's tank infantry were moving out from the cover of the woods north-east of Novi
which had been recovered after being damaged by a mine outside Kovel - were Koshary, headed towards the village of Krasnodub'ya. Accounts differ here
ready for combat. The town was quickly taken but then the attack stalled while with at least one authoritative source stating that 7.Kompanie was sent to
the engineers cleared a minefield allowing the Russians time to withdraw into attack the Russians and others insisting that Mühlenkamp refused to be drawn
the village of Dovhonosy some 3 kilometres to the west. From there they were out. The latter does seem likely as his mission was to act as a mobile reserve. He
also able to move troops into the woods near Stari Koshary. The Soviets had did however move his headquarters to Smidyn some 14 kilometres to the
ceased to operate as an effective, organised force however and by the next day north-east of Kovel and directly into the path of the Russian attack and it seems
LVI.Panzerkorps was able to declare that the area around Kovel had been certain that the Wiking Panthers were well forward of their original positions
cleared. around Maciejów. Late that afternoon, Soviet aircraft bombed the German
By the first week of May, Soviet attacks against German positions to the east of positions between Kruhel and Smidyn adding to Mühlenkamp's conviction that
Kovel had ended, both sides exhausted from the previous month's fighting. a major Soviet attack would shortly be directed at that area with the intention
of capturing Chelm and a crossing of the Bug River. He shared his concerns with
On 8 May, the tank regiment was withdrawn to Maciejów and placed under the General Johannes Block, his corps commander, who agreed that the Wiking
command of LVI.Panzerkorps as an operational reserve. Here the regiment units should be pulled back to the Maciejów (10) area were they would be able
took part in exercises with 4.Panzer-Division. Later, units of the Wiking division to deal with a Russian breakthrough. Just after noon on the following day a
were transferred to the SS-Truppenbüngplatz Heidelager at Debiça near large number of Soviet bombers attacked the German positions followed by a
Kraków. force of approximately 400 armoured vehicles. A platoon of 7.Kompanie,
During the first two weeks of May, Obersturmbannführer Franz Hack's commanded by SS-Obersturmführer Ulf-Ola Olin, had been placed well
III.Abteilung of the Germania Regiment took part in a large anti-partisan forward of the main force and was now directed by Mühlenkamp to allow ten
operation codenamed Maigewitter - May Storm (7). Under the command of Russian tanks to pass before engaging the enemy. The fire from Olin's platoon
Gruppenführer Jakob Sporrenberg, the SS and Police commander for the Lublin succeeded in focusing attention on that small part of the battlefield and at that
area, the operation was actually conducted in two parts - Sturmwind I and II - in moment every tank in the battalion opened fire. In a fire-fight that lasted thirty
the area around Lublin between the Parczew Forest in the north and minutes 103 Russian tanks were destroyed without the loss of a single Panther.
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When the officers at LVI.Panzerkorps headquarters were informed of the capturing Rani and opened the way for II.Abteilung to advance to the banks of
Russian losses they expressed disbelief and Mühlenkamp immediately the Lesna. During the day, the Russians had launched an attack through the
demanded that they come forward and count the wrecks for themselves. Pruska Wielowieska forest which was met by an immediate counter-thrust by
Documents retrieved from one of the Russian tanks after the battle also the assault guns of Hauptsturmführer Zimmerman's 4.Kompanie and the first
showed that his assessment of the enemy's intentions regarding Chelm and the battalion of the Germania regiment which had only just arrived. The next
Bug River crossing had been correct. In recognition of his efforts during this morning Zimmerman's company supported by the first battalion of the
engagement Untersturmführer Alfred Großrock - a platoon commander with Westland regiment stormed the heights around Šarašova destroying thirty
6.Kompanie who had personally destroyed 26 Russian tanks - was Russian artillery pieces. On 20 July the last guns of the artillery regiment were
recommended for the Knight's Cross. Mühlenkamp, whose insight and unloaded from their railway cars.
leadership had prevented a potentially disastrous situation, was awarded the On 22 July a new threat materialised with Russian units reported to have
Oakleaves. crossed the Brest-Bia³ystock railway line to the west. With 292.Infanterie-
Soviet attacks continued for the next few days until on the night of 11-12 July, Division placed under his command, Gruppenführer Gille was ordered to move
the Wiking units were relieved by Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 600. Moving by road his division to the northwest of its present position around Kamianiec and to cut
and then rail, the tanks arrived near Brest on 14 July, to be placed under the the enemy's lines of communication. Although the Soviet units which remained
command of 2.Armee (11). The chief of staff of Army Group Centre, General active in the German rear areas meant that the division's supply position was
Hans Krebs, was determined that the division would not be used in a piecemeal doubtful at best, Gille had his men moving by that afternoon and by 5.00pm the
fashion again, and that together with 3.SS-Panzer-Division, would be held in tanks of II.Abteilung supported by the second battalion of the Westland
reserve behind the defensive line on the Roœ River. However the worsening regiment were in contact with the enemy. On the following day they were able
situation on Army Group Centre's front meant that any units that were to reach and capture the town of Czeremcha, 40 kilometres northwest of
available and combat ready had to be thrown into the fight and on Saturday 15 Kamianiec, which lay on the rail line between Brest in the south and Bia³ystock
July, Mühlenkamp was ordered to form a battle group made up of the in the north. In a development typical of the confused and hectic fighting at this
serviceable Panthers of II.Abteilung (probably only 7.Kompanie) and stage of the war, Brest fell to the Soviets the following day and within days the
III.Abteilung of the Germania regiment, the latter equipped with armoured Red Army was threatening Warsaw. The division was ordered to move to the
half-tracks. Late the same evening Mühlenkamp was ordered to move forward area some 35 kilometres east of the Polish capital to cover the right wing of
towards Haynówka, southeast of Bia³ystock, to support Korpsgruppe 2.Armee.
Harteneck, a strong ad hoc formation which included the assault guns of By the end of July, the Russians had been able to drive a wedge between
Panzer-Abteilung 118 and the Tiger tanks of schwere Panzer-Abteilung 507. 2.Armee and 9.Armee near Radzymin, approximately 30 kilometres northeast
Initially the group's tank strength consisted of only twenty Panthers, however of Warsaw, and the division was directed to attack towards the west, cutting
by the following Monday they were joined by a further seventeen (which would off the enemy from their supplies and re-establishing contact with the German
suggest a company, probably 5.Kompanie) and importantly by the tanks of the units fighting to the east of the city. Storming into Stanis³awów during the
third and fourth companies of I.Abteilung which had completed their training evening of 30 July, the tanks of II.Abteilung were able to capture intact a
and were able to field seventeen Pzkw IV tanks and fifteen Sturmgeschütz IV number of Russian armoured vehicles and trucks and to reconnoitre a further
assault guns. 10 kilometres to the west the following day. At the same time the tanks and
While Mühlenkamp's group had been in transit to the front the Soviets had assault guns of the third and fourth companies were conducting vigorous
broken through the left flank of XXIII.Armmekorps near Pružany, northwest of counterattacks between Sokóle and Ludwinów, west of Stanis³awów, in an
Brest and were headed towards Kamianiec. On 17 July, at 11.00am, the effort to restore the German lines. By 2 August, a combined effort by 19.Panzer-
Panthers, accompanied by the half-tracks of the Germania regiment, moved Division and 4.Panzer-Division succeeded in halting the Russia advance and
forward past Kamianiec and were soon in contact with the Russians, cutting off forcing them into a pocket around Wo³omin, a small town on the Warsaw-
their lead elements. The assault guns of 4.Kompanie were slower in moving off Bia³ystock rail line to the southeast of Radzymin. Suffering from a lack of fuel
and did not engage the enemy until 5.00pm that afternoon. They did however for their tanks and hampered by the incessant rain, the Russians attempted to
achieve some success managing to destroy several anti-tank guns and a Lend- break out to the south on 3 August, and near Micha³ów, a village on the
Lease Sherman tank. That evening Mühlenkamp received orders to attack the Warsaw- Stanis³awow road, ran into the Panthers of Reicher's II.Abteilung.
next morning and push the Russians back across the Lesna Prawa, a tributary Although the world's attention was now focused on the uprising in Warsaw,
of the Bug River, after firstly eliminating the enemy force trapped to his rear. fighting continued in the Wiking division's sector with the Russians
The headquarters of 2.Armee denied his request that the attack be delayed maintaining pressure on the German defensive line. Towns and villages such as
until the arrival of SS-Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 5, which was at that moment Stanis³awów, Pustelnik, Cisówka and Bia³ki changed hands several times. On
moving towards the front. Heading out the next morning, 7.Kompanie took the 11 August, Obersturmbannführer Fritz Darges arrived to take command of SS-
village of Czemery (modern day Èamiary 1) and 8.Kompanie attacked south, Panzer-Regiment 5 from Mühlenkamp who would now lead the division (12).
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Officers of III.Abteilung, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment Germania examine a disabled

Russian SU-76 self-propelled gun during the battles east of Warsaw. At left is
Untersturmführer Gerhard Mahn, commander of 11.Kompanie, and in the centre is
Obersturmführer Friedrich Hannes, commander of 12.Kompanie. The Deutsches Kreuz
decoration worn by Mahn firmly dates this photograph to post-June 1944.
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 I.ABTEILUNG, SS-PANZER-REGIMENT 5
Most accounts of the Wiking division’s Panzers concentrate on the second, or Panther Abteilung. However, the first battalion - although starved for
replacement vehicles and men - played an important part in the fighting across eastern Poland in late 1944. When the division escaped from the Cherkassy
Pocket in mid-February 1944, all heavy equipment, including a number of Pzkw III and Pzkw IV tanks and Sturmgeschütz III assault guns, were lost. On 18
March 1944, the survivors of I.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 were transferred to the Chelm training area in Poland and began arriving there during the
evening of the following day.

Stab/I.Abteilung
Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV On 16 July, 4.Kompanie had fifteen assault guns on hand and received
a further three - presumably from short-term repair - in the course of
the following week. There is some evidence that the ‘spare’ vehicle
was maintained at the battalion headquarters.
Pzkw IV Pzkw IV StuG IV

1.Kompanie (17.9.1944) 2.Kompanie (26.9.1944)

Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV

Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV

Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV

Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV

3.Kompanie (16.7.1944) 4.Kompanie (21.7.1944)

Pzkw IV Pzkw IV StuG IV StuG IV

Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV

Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV

Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV Pzkw IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV StuG IV
On 20 March, Obersturmführer Hans-Georg Jessen, at that time the commander of 4.Kompanie, was ordered to take charge of seventeen Sturmgeschütz III
assault guns standing at the Chelm railway yards. It is unclear if these vehicles were ever intended for the division, as some accounts suggest, and Jessen and his
men may have been the only available troops capable of unloading and delivering the assault guns. In any case they were directed to drive the vehicles towards
Kovel where they were to be handed over to an army unit. On the following Thursday, 23 March, Obersturmführer Brand - the commander of 1.Kompanie - took
charge of twenty-two Pzkw IV tanks. Rather than allocate all these vehicles to one company, it was decided that two of these tanks would be assigned to the
battalion headquarters and each of the four companies would receive five vehicles - that is, enough for one full platoon. It should also be noted that in addition to
a shortage of tanks the battalion was also drastically short of personnel - particularly experienced NCO's - and it is doubtful if any one company could have
crewed a full complement of tanks. By 23 April, a further five tanks had been received raising the total number to twenty-seven.
During March 1944, the division's Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung had received twenty-two Sturmgeschütz IV vehicles which had been allocated to that unit's first and
second companies. When the battalion was disbanded on 1 June 1944, the assault guns and their crews were absorbed by I.Abteilung and it was intended that
companies that did not have enough Pzkw IV tanks would be filled out with the assault guns. It should be noted however that by this time the number of assault
guns had been reduced to twenty and together with the twenty-two available tanks was still not enough to equip an entire battalion.
Throughout June 1944, the battalion continued to train and receive new equipment. However, by the first week of July only the third and fourth companies could
be declared ready for action. Those companies, together with a headquarters element commanded by Obersturmführer Paul Senghas, formed an operational
Kampfgruppe while the first and second companies were designated a Lehr or training group and under the command of Obersturmführer Hein, sent back to the
Debiça training area. There, lacking not only vehicles but even such basic equipment as adequate uniforms and footwear, they trained with the division's anti-
tank battalion and an army assault gun replacement unit.
In his post-war account Ewald Klapdor, who served as a company and battalion commander with the division, states emphatically that the third and fourth
companies were equipped with twenty of the twenty-two available Pzkw IV tanks and all twenty-one assault guns respectively. Other accounts state that on 10
July, 3.Kompanie had seventeen tanks on hand - which would be the normal complement for a three platoon company - and 4.Kompanie had fifteen assault
guns. It is unlikely that Obersturmführer Senghas, who went on to become the division's top-scoring tank commander, would have controlled the Kampfgruppe
from one of the transport vehicles and it may be that Klapdor's figures constitute the whole battle group and not only the two tank companies. The figures given
for 10 July, could well represent those vehicles deemed combat ready, the remainder being in need of repair or lost. Further, every credible account of the period
stresses that the first and second companies had no tanks at all during this period suggesting that all available vehicles were with the battle group.
On Sunday 16 July, Senghas' Kampfgruppe joined II.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 in the field. Both the third and fourth companies were committed to action
immediately and the following day the tank of the third company's commander, Obersturmführer Kurt Schumacher - which the unit diary mentions as a
Befehlspanzer - was knocked out together with three others. The tank of Obersturmführer Josef Hohenester, recorded as being numbered 324, is mentioned as
being damaged but later salvaged. This confirms that the tanks of 3.Kompanie at least were numbered using the official system employed at the time - tanks 311
and 312 being confirmed by photographic evidence. A report of October also confirms that 2.Kompanie used this system by mentioning the destruction of tanks
numbered 224 and 225. By the end of July, I.Abteilung reported that twenty-two Pzkw IV tanks and eighteen Sturmgeschütz IV assault guns were on hand,
although only five and six vehicles respectively were combat ready, the rest being in short and long term repair. Immediately prior to this, 3.Kompanie which had
been equipped with six tanks and two assault guns - presumably taken over from 4.Kompanie - lost all its remaining vehicles in the fighting around the Slezany
bridgehead on the southern bank of the Bug. By the second week of August the battalion was down to twelve tanks and eleven assault guns which could be
described as combat ready. By the first week of September these figures had dropped to four of each type and at this time both companies were withdrawn to be
re-equipped. Confusingly, some accounts state that the first and second companies had joined the regiment on or about 21 July, when in fact 1.Kompanie did not
receive its full complement of Pzkw IV tanks until 17 September and 2.Kompanie did not receive theirs until 26 September. Further, neither of these companies
was equipped with Sturmgeschütz IV assault guns as is often stated - the twenty-two such vehicles taken on during the last week of March were the last that the
division would receive.
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 THE WIKING PANTHERS
Stab/SS-Panzer-Regt.5 While the regiment’s I.Abteilung struggled throughout 1944 to
Early ausf D Late ausf A Late ausf A obtain replacements of both men and equipment and never
managed to field a complete battalion, the real striking power of the
division lay in its Panther Abteilung.
Although photographic evidence confirms that tank R01 did in fact exist,
the regiment’s commander is most often pictured in the turret of R02. All
Early ausf D Early ausf D Ausf A Early ausf D three Panzerbefehlswagen ausf D vehicles were inherited from SS-Panzer-
Stab/II.Abteilung
Regiment 1 in late 1943. The vehicles numbered II011 to II014 are the
battalion’s reconnaissance platoon although several photographs of tank
II11 exist, one in company with other Wiking Panthers, and it would seem
Late ausf A Ausf A Early ausf A Late ausf A that it is not the same vehicle as II011.

5.Kompanie 6.Kompanie
Late ausf D Early ausf A Early ausf A

Late ausf A Late ausf D Early ausf D Late ausf A Early ausf A Early ausf A Early ausf A Late ausf A

Late ausf A Late ausf A Late A/early D Early ausf A Early ausf A Late ausf A Late ausf A Late ausf D Late ausf A Late ausf A

Ausf A Late ausf A Early A/late D Late ausf A Early ausf A

7.Kompanie 8.Kompanie
Late ausf A Early ausf A Late ausf A Early ausf A

Early ausf A Late ausf A Early ausf A Late ausf A Early ausf A

Ausf A Ausf A Early ausf A Late ausf A Early ausf A Late ausf A

Ausf A Late ausf A Late ausf D Late ausf A Late ausf A Early ausf A Early ausf A Late ausf A

The criteria for identification of the model types - or Ausfürung - is based on the following and is admittedly simplistic: Early ausf D - a drum type commander’s cupola and letter-box
style machine gun hull aperture; Late ausf D - a letter-box style machine gun hull aperture and cast commander’s cupola without the loader’s periscope; Early ausf A - a cast
commander’s cupola and loader’s periscope with the letter-box style machine gun hull aperture, and; Late ausf A - a ball-mount hull machine gun and cast commander’s cupola. It is
possible that a vehicle classified here as a Late ausf A could in fact be a mid-production model, although it is often not possible to make a definitive identification from the available
photographs. Some sources state that additional vehicle numbers existed,and although it is possible that they did, the division never had more Panthers on hand at any one time
than the number shown here - that is, seventy-nine tanks. Note however that. Klapdor’s account specifically states that the regiment had at least two Pzkw IV tanks in its
reconnaissance platoon although this does not tally with the other information that we have on the division’s tank strengths.
The chart shown above is based on the observation of available photographs and records of the battalion’s vehicle strength at various times during 1944. Those
silhouettes shown in a darker shade have been confirmed by photographic evidence but the reader should be aware that some tanks were of course, lost or
destroyed and replaced by different models. For example the number 534 was originally allocated to a late Panther ausf D at around the time of the Maciejów
battles in July and to a later model Panther ausf A when the battalion was engaged east of Warsaw in August. The latter is depicted in the illustration section on
page 20. Both tank number 811 and 821 were destroyed outside Kovel in April - The former replaced by a late ausf A by August, perhaps earlier. All German army
units were established according to official instructions called Kriegsstärkenachweisungen - usually abbreviated to K.St.N.- which were issued whenever
organisational changes were required. While the regimental headquarters and II.Abteilung of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 were forming in France in late 1943,
K.St.N.1151a, K.St.N.1150a and K.St.N.1177 of 1 November 1943 were issued stipulating the organisation of a tank regiment’s headquarters company, a
battalion’s headquarters company and a medium tank company respectively. The regimental headquarters was to contain a Nachrichtenzug - literally a signals
platoon but in reality a command troop - with three Panzerbefehlswagen and an Aufklärungzug - or reconnaissance platoon - with five tanks. The battalion
headquarters had eight tanks of which three were supposed to be command tanks. Each company contained a command troop with two tanks and four platoons
of five tanks each. On 1 April 1944, the first of the so-called Freie Gliederung instructions was issued, and K.St.N.1103 called for a regimental headquarters made
up of a Nachrichtenzug of three Panzerbefehlswagen and an Aufklürungzug of five Pzkw IV tanks. The battalion headquarters remained unchanged although a
new instruction was issued - K.St.N.1150 (fG) - which allowed for an establishment using either Pzkw V or Pzkw IV tanks. Importantly, K.St.N.1177(fG) stipulated
that a company would now contain a Gruppe Führer, or command troop,
of two tanks and three platoons of five tanks each.

At left: Pages from the Pantherfibel, a manual for Panther crews which presented
technical information in a series of comic illustrations designed to appeal to
young soldiers. Although humorous and often risque the information imparted
was deadly serious, the page shown here describing the best method of hitting a
Russian T-34. Above: A Pzkw Panther V ausf A of 6.Kompanie photographed in
May 1944.
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Strachówka Sokolov
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Kamieniec
Wolomin Stanis³awów Rani
WARSAW Kobryn
Pustelnik Lesna
Ka³uszyn
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Radom Pil Parczew Inset: The 17 August issue of the
Zwolen Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung showing
two grenadiers of IV.SS-Panzerkorps Pariduby
Kilometres in Poland.
LUBLIN
Stari Koshary
0 5 10 20 30 40 50 Kovel
Krasnik
CHELM
Maciejów
DEFENDING WARSAW
During the 1939-45 period most of Poland was administered by the German General-Government and many towns and villages, particularly those which had been part of
Silesia before 1918, were forced to revert to their German names. The German accounts of course use these names while Polish histories use Polish names. Confusingly,
English language histories tend to use either. In light of this we have used the names in general usage today. The reader should bear in mind that many of the locations
mentioned in this book are no longer part of Poland but are today within the borders of Belarus and Ukraine.
At 9.00am on 18 August, a furious artillery barrage blasted the division's front Renz had been fighting to hold Przykory, near T³uszcz, all day against a force of
line announcing the resumption of the Red Army’s offensive. Directing their armour and infantry that was being steadily reinforced as the battle
attacks to the flanks of the division the Soviets were able to break through the progressed. The Soviet attacks continued all the next day and by the evening
left wing held by the tanks of the fifth and sixth companies of SS-Panzer- the left flank of the division was almost bare. By 8.00am the next morning the
Regiment 5. Within minutes the Russians pushed to the command post of Wiking units began pulling back with the remaining assault guns of
I.Abteilung and were only beaten back after a hand-to-hand battle. At 4.Kompanie holding back the enemy and preventing a complete
Wymys³y near Sulejówek, the headquarters of II.Abteilung of the Westland breakthrough. The Panthers of 5.Kompanie conducted a fighting withdrawal
Regiment was only saved by three Pzkw IV tanks from 3.Kompanie. By noon along the Wyszków road towards Trojany where the regimental command
however, a battle group made up of 3.Kompanie, an assault gun platoon of post found itself almost in the front line.
4.Kompanie and a number of grenadiers from Westland had managed to drive
the Russians back to Wólka Sulejowska, a small village north-east of T³uszcz. By the following evening, after attacking all day, the Russians were able to take
The German success was not without loss and Obersturmführer Lüthgarth, the Trojany and the Wiking units, which were being supported by the first battalion
4.Kompanie platoon commander was badly wounded and his assault gun of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment Eicke of the Totenkopf division, pulled back to
destroyed. Also lost were four tanks and their crews under the command of the village of Dabrówka, another 2 kilometres to the east. The security of the
Oberscharführer Ruf which had been positioned in the woods to the northwest left wing was assumed by Infanterie-Brigade 1131 under Oberst Söth allowing
of Sulejówek and were overrun by the initial Russian attack. the division to move into a defensive line running north to south just behind the
Radzymin road with the tank regiment headquarters in Gutzwatka, southwest
Scraping together a force of two Pzkw IV tanks and two assault guns, of Dabrówka. The regiment's second battalion screened the area to the south-
Obersturmführer Schumacher - the 3.Kompanie commander - attacked Wólka west while the first battalion was held in reserve halfway between Dabrówka
Sulejowska in the late afternoon and finally drove the Russians out. and Slezany and the important bridge over the Bug River. During 23 and 24
On the division's right wing the II.Abteilung of the Germania regiment was August, the Russians attempted to cut the Radzymin road to the north and
unable to hold back the Soviet tanks and two enemy companies occupied heavy fighting took place around the village of Malapole which changed hands
T³uszcz. Near Jasienica, the Panthers of 7.Kompanie and 8.Kompanie held fast three times. Also on 23 August, Obersturmführer Metzger assumed command
and were able to halt the enemy, destroying twelve Soviet tanks in the process. of 4.Kompanie.
Here, on the right, at the junction of the Wiking division and 3.SS-Panzer- By 25 August, a Soviet armoured thrust had reached Czarnow and bypassing
Division Totenkopf, the Russians were able to penetrate the line in several Ludwinów, created a gap between Wiking and Infanterie-Brigade 1131.
places and the headquarters of II.Abteilung and 7.Kompanie - hurriedly named Realising the danger to the whole southwestern flank, Hauptsturmfuhrer
Kampfgruppe Flügel after Hauptsturmführer Hans Flügel, the battalion Säumenicht, the commander of I.Abteilung of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5, hurriedly
adjutant - were cut off. Holding their positions until dark, Flügel's men were led his tanks in an attack towards Czarnow. In truth the vehicles available to
able to fight their way out and head towards T³uszcz which was at that time - Säumenicht meant that his advance was little more than a reconnaissance-in-
unknown to Flügel - also under attack. Just north of the town, 5.Kompanie force and would have been unable to stop a strong, determined enemy. On
managed to stop the initial Russian assault and was joined by 8.Kompanie the reaching the Ludinow area at about 4.00am, Säumenicht found that there was
following morning. an undefended gap of some 2 kilometres in the German line and immediately
All that day the two companies fought a running battle between Koz³y and ordered his third company to take up positions on the southern edge of Slezany
Wólka Kozlowska supported by the Panther battalion of the Totenkopf division. and to expect an attack from the direction of Czarnow.
Late in the afternoon the tanks and assault guns of the third and fourth As the tanks of 3.Kompanie began to move, the Russians appeared and
companies managed to hold the positions of the Westland regiment around although they were driven back a stray shell detonated the charges that had
Wólka Kozlowska destroying thirteen Russian tanks. been laid on the Czarnow bridge trapping the companies of I.Abteilung on the
On the division's left the reconnaissance platoon under Hauptsturmführer south bank of the Bug.
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Unable to communicate with regimental headquarters some 13 kilometres Meanwhile the Panthers of 7.Kompanie were reinforced by the tank of
away at Benjaminów, Säumenicht ordered Obersturmführer Mittlebacher to Hauptsturmführer Flügel, who was now commanding the battalion, and a
cross the damaged bridge on foot and make contact with Oberst Söth who single assault gun. Together the German tankers knocked out eleven Soviet
would inform Mühlenkamp of the situation and relay any orders. tanks, one of them the 500th enemy tank to be destroyed by the regiment in
The divisional commander, in the presence of Obergruppenführer Gille - who five months of operations. Further to the east at Dzierženin on the road to
was now commanding IV.SS-Panzerkorps - directed that Säumenicht's Serock, 4.Kompanie held fast with only three operational assault guns, making
remaining tanks attack towards Czarnow, destroy the enemy units there and a stand in the grounds of the local cemetery.
proceed to Kuligow, which was still in German hands. With the meagre By now the Russians were exhausted and over the next few days only minor
resources at his disposal Säumenicht doubted his chances of success but went skirmishes were fought until by the middle of September, most of the division’s
ahead with the attack at about 1.30pm on 26 August. All went well until units were south of the Narew with the headquarters of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5
2.00pm when a sniper's bullet struck Säumenicht, mortally wounding him and at Wieliszew, positioned halfway between the two bridges which crossed the
taking the momentum out of the assault. By now the tanks and assault guns river into the so-called Wet Triangle and headed straight to Warsaw. On 26
were almost out of ammunition and withdrawing back into Slezany, destroyed September, Mühlenkamp officially handed over command of the regiment to
their vehicles and scrambled across the bridge to the relative safety of the Obersturmbannführer Darges.
north bank of the Bug where a defensive line was formed by scraping together
units composed of rear area personnel bolstered by the few remaining tanks At 9.00 am on 10 October, Soviet artillery began pounding the positions of the
and assault guns. During the evening of 26-27 August, the remnants of Wiking and Totenkopf divisions and within ninety minutes of the first shell
I.Abteilung - less 4.Kompanie - were withdrawn to the west bank of the Narew. landing, Russian infantry units were attempting to infiltrate the boundary
between the two divisions. Within a short time the Russians had crossed the
On 29 August, the Russians succeeded in penetrating the German line north-
Zeranski canal and reached the woods around Michalów, overrunning the
west of Radzymin but were beaten back by the Panthers of 6.Kompanie while
5.Kompanie held their left flank. Over the next two days the tanks of third battalion of the Westland regiment and either killing or wounding all the
II.Abteilung, supported by the infantry of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment Eicke, company commanders. In an immediate counterattack five Panthers and a
managed to destroy twenty Soviet tanks but could not hold onto the single assault gun were able to stabilise the line. Further north, the division’s
crossroads village of Cegielnia 15 kilometres north-east of Warsaw. Less than reconnaissance battalion was thrown back and it was only due to the decisive
1,000 metres to the east of the village lay the main road to the Polish capital actions of the 4.Kompanie commander and his assault gun crews that the
and here on 1 September, after a heavy artillery barrage, the Russians Soviets were held until, at 3.30 pm, the division reserve arrived to shore up the
attacked, overunning the second battalion of the Westland regiment and front. Attempting to advance into Nieporêt the Germans lost two Pzkw IV
5.Kompanie of the tank regiment. tanks and an armoured halftrack and three more tanks while withdrawing. As
darkness fell, 5.Kompanie was pulled out of the line to act as the division
During the following days the Russians maintained a relentless pressure on the reserve. During the night, units of the Westland regiment attacked the Russian
German defenses even attacking at night. However on 4 September, the axis of positions but were unsuccessful and at first light the Soviets resumed their
the Soviet attack changed completely when Wyszków fell and the enemy advance. By late afternoon they had advanced past the men of 9.Kompanie of
pressed forward towards Pultusk. At 7.00pm that night, the four remaining Westland, who were almost buried in the initial barrage, and reached the rear
assault guns of Metger’s company were ordered to intercept the Russian force of the reconnaissance battalion’s position forcing the German units to pull
and although they knocked out a number of self-propelled guns they could do back to the north-west of Nieporêt. By this time the division reserve,
little more than cover the retreat of Infanterie-Brigade 1131 and 35.Infanterie- 5.Kompanie and their Panthers, had been committed at Michalów.
Division. The German units withdrew across the Narew river at 7.05 am the
next morning, destroying the bridge behind them. The loss of the east bank of On 12 October the fighting intensified and the Russians, ignoring their
the Narew left the northern approach to Warsaw open and 7.Kompanie was staggering casualties, pressed forward to Wieliszew and were by now behind
ordered to Serock to cover the bridge there. 5.Kompanie. That night the tank crews could hear the sound of many tracked
In a daring move, during the night of 4-5 September, a number of Red Army vehicles assembling in the woods and the battalion commander decided to pull
infantrymen swam the river at a point some 7 kilometres north of Serock. The back all his Panthers south of Wieliszew. The next morning the anticipated
Russians poured men and material into the bridgehead as fast as they could attack began and until 15 October, the Wiking tanks and their enemy would
and despite an immediate counterattack by 4.Kompanie supported by the struggle for possession of the parish church and cemetery at the western end
division’s engineer battalion and later by 7.Kompanie, the Soviets held their of Wieliszew. Frustrated by their lack of success the Russians launched a series
ground and by 3.00pm that afternoon had expanded their bridgehead by of air attacks on 16 October, followed by an advance towards Zagroby, but this
some 3 kilometres. Although the fighting continued throughout the next day too was beaten back. Later that day the arrival of a Nebelwerfer unit and the
the Germans were merely able to slow the Russians in a series of ensuing barrage helped to hold off another Russian drive. At Wieliszew, that
counterattacks undertaken by the Panthers of 7.Kompanie and the assault afternoon, a German counter thrust ran into an advancing Russian force and
guns of 4.Kompanie - joined later in the day by Bauer’s 8.Kompanie. Realising retreated in some confusion until the arrival of Obersturmbannführer Darges
the seriousness of the situation, the remaining tanks of II.Abteilung which with two Pzkw IV tanks restored the situation. On 19 October, the Russians
were still south of Radzymin, were pulled back behind the Zeranski Canal near again attempted to take the church at Wieliszew and once again were driven
Nieporêt, a further 10 kilometres to the west back. This pattern continued until 24 October, when the Russians were able to
cross the Narew and consolidate a bridgehead on the southern bank.
At 4.00pm on the afternoon of 7 September, twenty Russian tanks broke
through the German defences 5 Kilometres north-west of Serock and Two days later, Russian infantry were able to cross on rubber rafts, so depleted
advanced toward the town. At the same time a large force of Soviet infantry had the German defences become, and also to attack out of their bridgehead
managed to push back the men of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 73 who had towards the south-west. What remained of the Wiking division joined the
been positioned north of Serock and were only stopped by the tanks of SS- other German units in the area and moved towards the fortress of Modlin were
Panzer-Regiment 3 from the Totenkopf division. the Narew and the Wis³a (Vistula) meet.

Pzkw Panther ausf A tanks of II.Abteilung photographed in the area east

of Warsaw in August 1944. Both are shown and discussed in the
illustration section.

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Below: The Soldbuch of an SS Grenadier who served with the
division’s artillery regiment and the Wiking cuff-title, woven and
embroidered in a light-grey thread on a black band. Officer ranks had
their cuff-titles embroidered in aluminium or silver bullion wire.
The Germania and Westland regiments
had their own cuff-titles.

Above: A Volkswagen Type 166 Schwimmwagen from

III.Abteilung, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment Germania. In the
distance can be seen an Sdkfz 251/1 half-track of the same unit
and a Pzkw V Panther of 5.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. This
tank is shown and discussed further on page 15.
Later that night the complete division performed a complicated withdrawal 3.Even at this stage of the war transport was at a premium and 7.Kompanie
manoeuvre to align its left flank with 5.Jäger-Division which had been pushed did not arrive until 31 March, while 5.Kompanie and 6.Kompanie were not
back during the day. Pivotting on the Germania regiment, which was able to unload their Panthers until 2 April, the day after Karl Nicolussi-Leck's
stationed on the right wing between T³uszcz and Strachówka, the division surviving tanks entered Kovel. This large force equipped with their powerful
swung in a huge arc until the Westland regiment on its right wing reached tanks significantly tipped the balance in favour of the Germans.
Sulejówek, just over 10 kilometres east of the Wis³a (Vistula). Realising what
was happening the Russians launched attacks on both flanks and it was only 4. The commander of 6.Kompanie complained that his infantry support never
through determined counterattacks by the Panthers of 7.Kompanie and the arrived while the grenadiers from 5.Panzer-Division stated that they were
grenadiers of the Germania regiment that the line was re-established. The halted by Russian fire.
division was now poised to defend Warsaw and the Vistula. An account of the
Wiking division's part in the Warsaw battles, the final phase of our story, can 5. During the night of 3 April, German units reset their timepieces to summer
be read on pages 8 and 9. or Daylight Saving time putting them one hour ahead of the Russians. This
By the beginning of November the tank strength of the division stood at 15 may account for some discrepancies in various sources.
Panther and 7 Pzkw IV tanks and 3 Sturmgeschütz IV assault guns and shortly 6.Klapdor's account - which may be inaccurate but which cannot be ignored -
thereafter it was decided that the survivors of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 would be states that 40 Panthers , 4 command tanks and 4 Pzkw IV tanks were on hand.
divided into a combat ready group - consisting of the second, fourth, fifth and While the latter are almost certainly vehicles of one of the army regiments, the
sixth companies, and a training group - made up from the remaining
companies. Under the command of Karl Nicolussi-Leck, the latter group was command tanks are not so easily explained. The regiment did in fact have a
sent to the training centre at Litzmannstadt (modern day £ód¿) to be re- number of Panzerbefehlswagen Panther tanks on hand, all taken over from SS-
equipped. At the same time the division was reinforced by the first battalions Panzer-Regiment 1.
of the SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 23 Norge and SS-Panzergrenadier 7.Confusingly, another anti-partisan sweep took place in Yugoslavia under the
Regiment 24 Danmark which were detached from the 11. SS-Freiwilligen-
Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland. same codename at almost the same time and the name was also used for a
similar operation conducted in the Ukraine the previous year.
The war would of course go on for the soldiers of the Wiking division. In late
December 1944, the Hungarian capital of Budapest was encircled by the 8.A detailed account of the Soviet offensive is far beyond the scope of this book
advancing Soviet Army, trapping a large number of German and Hungarian and it is sufficient to state here that the Red Army was able to field almost 2.5
units, including IX.Waffen-Gebirgskorps der SS whose commander million men and approximately 4,000 tanks and assault guns. Operations
Obergruppenführer Karl von Pfeffer-Wildenbruch had been placed in conducted in 1944 would see Russia cleared of German troops and a
command of the city's defence. The Wiking division, as part of IV.SS-Panzer bridgehead on the Vistula created within striking distance of Berlin.
Corps, was ordered to join 6.Armee which would lead the relief effort,
codenamed Operation Konrad (13). The attack would begin on the first day of 9. Mühlenkamp's force was made up from the mobile units available to the
the new year. division at that time - his regimental staff and second battalion, equipped with
Panther tanks, and the second and third battalions of the Germania regiment.
NOTES
1.German units including the Wiking division staff, SS-Panzergrenadier- 10.The exact position of Mühlenkamp's force is another bone of contention.
Regiment 9 Germania (less III.Abteilung), SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 10
Westland (less III.Abteilung) and I.Abteilung/SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 had been The village of Maciejów is approximately 17 kilometres southwest of Chelm
trapped in the pocket since December 1943. Attached to the division at that and almost 35 kilometres to the west of the nearest crossing of the Bug. It
time were also SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade Wallonie and SS-Freiwilligen- seems likely that Mühlenkamp suggested to Block that his tanks be withdrawn
Panzergrenadier-Bataillon Narwa. As one of the few armoured units inside from the Kruhel area not to, but in the direction of, Maciejów. This would have
the pocket, Wiking was chosen to lead the breakout and in the attempt lost all placed his tanks on the southern side of the Kovel-Chelm road, on the eastern
its heavy equipment. The debate over exact casualty figures rages to this day, bank of the Bug. The position is described in German accounts as Hill 220 and
however what is certain is that some 8,300 men from the Waffen SS units the village of Rymacze (modern day Rymachi, approximately 7 kilometres east
reported for duty after the breakout. Among the dead was the popular of the Bug crossing) would seem to fit the bill.
commander of the tank regiment's first battalion Sturmbannführer Hans
Köller. Cherkassy on the Dnepr should not be confused with the village of 11.The regimental HQ was located in Bia³ystok with the headquarters of
Cherkasy near Kovel. II.Abteilung and 7 and 8.Kompanie. Just 4 kilometres to the east, sheltered by a
wood, were 5 and 6.Kompanie.
2.Contrary to some accounts there were no Wiking units inside the city when
the siege began. The only Waffen SS formation present was SS-Kavallerie- 12.In October, Mühlenkamp was appointed to the position of Inspekteur der
Regiment 17 which had been detached from 8.SS-Kavallerie-Division Florian Panzertruppen der Waffen-SS and replaced by Oberführer Karl Ullrich.
Geyer. A number of Sturmgeschütz III assault guns were used by the defenders
and this also seems to have caused confusion with at least one account stating 13.In some accounts referred to as Armeegruppe Balck, named for its
they belonged to Stug.Abt 118 - a unit that never existed. It is possible that commander General Hermann Balck. This was in fact a much larger formation
these vehicles were from Panzer-Abteilung 118. which included units of 6.Armee and was not formed until 17 January.
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 Below: Befehlspanzerwagen V Panther ausf A. Stab, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.
Almost every available photograph of this tank shows the regiment’s
commander Obersturmbannführer Johannes Mühlenkamp in the cupola - as
can be seen at left. Interestingly, a command tank numbered R01 is known to
have existed and there is at least one image showing R02 with a different
commander - who we have unfortunately not been able to identify.

During the relief of Kovel, the tank

commanded by Mühlenkamp was
disabled by a mine just outside the city
in the early hours of 5 April, and could
not be recovered for two days. It is
possible that the disabled tank was
R01 and that until it could be repaired
Mühlenkamp adopted his adjutant’s
vehicle - and apparently retained it for
some time.

Below: Sdkfz 251/7 ausf D. SS-Panzer-

Regiment 5. Although these vehicles were
used by the division’s engineer battalion,
the tank regiment did have a number on
hand at the time this photograph was taken
during the fighting between Kovel and
Chelm on the Bug in July 1944. Note that in
the photograph at right the Panther just
visible on the left hand side with a wooden
ladder propped against the hull is in fact
tank R02 shown above. The SS registration
number shown on the Sdkfz 251/7 at left is
purely fictitious but feasible.

Below: Bergepanther, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. In his account of the fighting around around Kovel in late March, Karl Nicolussi-Leck, the commander of
8.Kompanie, mentions that he had three of these recovery vehicles available to him, implying that they were an integral part of his company. This is a very early
model and lacks the large spade at the hull rear. This illustration is in fact based on a photograph taken in the summer.

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 Below: Panzerbefehlswagen IV ausf J. 1.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-
Regiment 5. Although photographed in early 1945, it is likely this
vehicle’s markings and camouflage changed little from the battles of
August and October. Photographs of Wiking Pzkw IV tanks are quite
rare and our knowledge is therefore limited. It is however certain that
the tanks of the first, second and third companies identified their tanks
using the three digit system shown here.

Above: A rear view of

tank 111 showing the
placement of the
Sternantenne aerial for
the long range Fu 8
radio set and its armour
protection on the hull
rear plate.

Below: Pzkw IV ausf J. 3.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-

Regiment 5. This tank was probably photographed
in May 1944 while the companies of I.Abteilung
were in training, hence the neat and tidy
appearance. In all likelihood the hull Schürzen
would have been used in action.

Above: The division’s unit

insignia as it was applied to the
3.Kompanie Pzkw IV tank
shown at right. Although the
colour here is shown as black -
which is highly likely - it is
entirely possible that another
dark shade could have been
used.

Below: Sturmgeschütz IV. I.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. In June 1944, the division’s

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 5 was disbanded with the battalion’s assault guns and crews being re-assigned
to I.Abteilung of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. At first it was planned that the assault guns would be used to fill
out the companies that had insufficient Pzkw IV tanks but they were all eventually concentrated in
4.Kompanie - with perhaps one exception as discussed on page 6. The vehicle depicted here was probably
photographed in June when the battalion was still in training or perhaps even earlier as the crew all seem
to be wearing the field grey jacket issued to assault gun crews.

Above: The photograph on

which our illustration is
based. The dark coloured
barrel is rendered here in a
shade that represents the red
oxide primer used at this
time, although the exact
shade may have been
somewhat more yellow in
appearance. The same colour
can be seen on the Schürzen
which must have been
painted very hurriedly.
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 Below: Befehlspanzerwagen V Panther ausf D. Stab/II.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.
Photographed outside Kovel, probably just east of Stari Koshary, this tank was the mount of
Obersturmbannführer Otto Paetsch who had taken over command of the battalion on 1 March
1944. The rear view at right is shown here merely to illustrate the position of the Sternantenne on
the hull’s rear deck. Although the turret number is shown here as black it is entirely possible that
some other dark colour was used.

Below: Befehlspanzerwagen V Panther ausf D. Stab/II.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. This

command tank was photographed during the August battles outside Warsaw and features the light,
mottled camouflage pattern that seems to have been common, but not universal, at that time. Note
the different style of number used here as compared to tank II00 shown above. Not shown on either
vehicle is the radio antenna next to the commanders cupola on the turret roof.

At left: The alteration of the Zimmerit paste

on the turret side was evident on many of the
battalion’s Panthers by July, however this tank
has not had a patch removed - as was the case
with most vehicles - but rather fresh Zimmerit
has been added, as can clearly be seen in the
accompanying photograph. Although
obviously intended for the division’s unit
insignia of a sun-wheel inside a shield it would
seem that the actual design was never
applied.
Below: Pzkw V Panther ausf A.
Stab/II.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-
Regiment 5. This tank, although
photographed at the same time as
Panther II01, is painted in the
camouflage scheme of broad
swathes of colour more commonly
seen earlier in the year. Of note is the
bracket on the rear hull used to secure
the unditching beam.

Above: The photograph of tank II02 on

which our illustration is based. That this
image was made in August 1944 is
confirmed by other photographs in the
same series which show Panthers of SS-
Panzer-Regiment 3 of the Totenkopf
division following immediately behind
the Wiking Panthers. Not the mixture
of early and later style wheels.

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 Far left: Befehlspanzerwagen V Panther ausf D.
II.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. Not shown here is
the Sternantenne carried on the rear hull which was
clearly visible in our photograph. Also shown at left is
tank number II014, a late A model also of the
reconnaissance platoon. Note that this tank has the
same type of camouflage pattern seen on the other
vehicles of this platoon in early 1944. This style of
camouflage, using patches of a darker colour painted
over patches of a lighter shade, was an identifying
feature of the reconnaissance platoon.

At right: Pzkw V Panther ausf A.

II.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.
Tanks numbered from II011 to II014
were all assigned to the reconnaissance
platoon commanded by Manfred Renz
who, in his account of the Kovel fighting
in March, clearly states that his platoon
contained five Panthers. This makes II11
something of a mystery as although it is
the same model as II011 and very similar
in appearance, it is almost certainly not
the same tank as both were
photographed at various times between
March and October with the appearance
of both altering slightly over that time -
although the numbers remained
unchanged. Although confusing, two
different tanks would account for
Renz’s figure of five vehicles.

Below: Befehlspanzerwagen V Panther ausf D. II.Abteilung, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.

Photographed near one of the Bug River bridges opposite the Slezany bridgehead in
August 1944 this command tank was very liberally covered in local foliage obscuring the
turret and making a positive identification impossible. However, the other
Befehlspanzerwagen V Panther ausf D of this battalion are all depicted in photographs
and no others have the Zimmerit covered hull schurtzen seen here.

Above: The construction of the

bracket used to hold the unditching
beam on this vehicle seems to have
been unique and is built in such a way
as to avoid the Sternantenne on the
rear deck. Although it is not possible
to be certain, this tank may be R01
the Panther disabled by a mine
outside Kovel in April 1944 and
repaired some time later.
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 Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 5.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. The camouflage scheme shown here, made up of a
lightly sprayed mottling of Olivgrün and Rotbraun on the Dunkelgelb base colour, was common to most tanks of
5.Kompanie by summer. Another common feature of this company’s tanks was the neatly stenciled turret numbers.
Of note is the early exhaust system and the
Horizontal position of the jack. The bracket
welded to the rear hull has been
Badly damaged.

Pzkw V Panther ausf D. 5.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.

Above: A right hand side view of Although it is difficult to be absolutely certain from the photograph
Panther 501 shows a crewman in on which our illustration is based, this tank appears to be without a
conference with men of coating of Zimmerit on the hull and only a very rough coat applied to
III.Abteilung/SS-Panzergrenadier- the turret. This tank is one of the very few early model D vehicles on
Regiment Germania. hand with the battalion that was not a command tank.

Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 5.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.

This vehicle is one of the most photographed tanks of the
battalion enabling us to be quite sure about its appearance. In
common with most of the Panthers, a bracket has been welded
to the rear hull to hold the large unditching beam which was an
essential piece of equipment in the marshes and sandy soil of
eastern Poland. Indeed, these beams were also a feature of
Russian tanks operating in the same area. Note also the
alteration to the front mudguards, a common sight on
the tanks of this company. The reason for this is unclear
but it may have assisted access to the hull.

Above: A rear view of Panther 521. Note

the later style exhaust and horizontal
position of the jack. The application of
Zimmerit in the pattern shown here of
ridges within small squares seems to
have been the most commonly used
although exceptions certainly existed
and are shown throughout the
illustrations.
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 Sdkfz 251/1 ausf D. III.Abteilung, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 Germania. In April 1944, an order issued by the Inspector-General for armoured troops stipulated the use of a four-digit
code for armoured vehicles, other than tanks, of a regimental or battalion headquarters. The first two numbers were chosen at random and identified the battalion or regiment. This would
suggest that the halftrack shown below was attached to the staff of III.Abteilung. However, there is abundant evidence that the battalion headquarters vehicles were marked with the
Abteilung number in Roman numerals, as shown below. Further, the tactical sign denoting a motorised infantry company with what may be the number 11 can be clearly seen in our
photograph.

Sdkfz 251/3 ausf D. Stab/III.Abteilung, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 Germania. Throughout

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1944, the third battalion of the Germania regiment was the only unit amongst the division’s infantry
to be fully equipped with armoured halftracks and consequently was called upon to bear much of the
burden of the defensive battles fought in eastern Poland and the Ukraine. The style, colour and
placement of the vehicle numbering system was consistent throughout the battalion and obviously
applied with the use of stencils. At right: The division’s unit insignia displayed on the hull front of an
Sdkfz 251 halftrack. The reader should be aware that there is no contemporary photographic
evidence for this practice and our illustration is based on a recent excavation.

Above: The photograph on which our

illustration of the vehicle shown at left is
based. Sometimes credited with having been
taken during Operation Maigewitter, an
anti-partisan sweep conducted near Lublin in
early May, this image was almost certainly
made in August 1944 during the battles to
defend Warsaw and the Vistula. The officer
at left is Obersturmführer Friedrich Hannes,
commander of the Germania regiment’s
12.Kompanie
 Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. Photographed in late April, Left: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. The
during the fighting on the east bank of the Bug between Kovel and Chelm, this tank was the date of the photograph on which our illustration is based is confirmed by
mount of the 8.Kompanie commander, Obersturmführer Nicolussi-Leck. The camouflage the presence of a number of vehicles of 4.Panzer-Division in the same
pattern made up of broad bands of colour would seem to have been common at this date series. The photograph, and the series from which it came, are the earliest
and this was probably how this tank appeared when it arrived in Poland in March, although images showing the field modification of a bracket welded to the hull rear.
a coat of removable whitewash would have been added at that time. Far left: Obersturmführer Karl Nicolussi-Leck, who commanded
8.Kompanie of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 throughout the battles of 1944. This
photograph was taken some time after the Kovel relief attempt for which
Nicolussi-Leck was awarded the Knight’s Cross.

Below: A rear view of Panther 800

as it appeared in August 1944.
Note the application of the tank’s
number on the turret rear, also the
later style exhaust sytem and
horizontal position of the jack.

Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. This vehicle is the same tank depicted above, photographed some four
months later in August, in the area to the east of Warsaw. The most striking difference is the camouflage scheme which is now a soft

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mottling of Olivgrün and Rotbraun over the Dunkelgelb base colour. Interestingly, this process is the exact opposite of that
undergone by Panther 714 illustrated on page 19. Note that this tank’s number, although identical in style and size, is not in the same
position. A shield-shaped patch of Zimmerit has been scraped away on both the turret and hull front and on the latter, the division’s
unit insignia has been painted in white. This practice was not restricted to Nicolussi-Leck’s company, as has been suggested. We have
however, been unable to find a single instance of the shield motif being applied to the turret side although many tanks have been
given the appropriate space. As with most of the regiment’s Panthers, the full mudguards have been removed together with part of
the hull Schürzen.
Below: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 5.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. This tank
was photographed in August 1944 and carries, for the time, a very unusual
hard-edged camouflage scheme, departing from the more common soft
mottled pattern.

Above: An earlier model Panther

ausf A photographed near Maciejów
in April 1944 which also bears the
number 534. What became of this
tank is not known.

Left: Pzkw V Panther ausf A.

6.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.
The scrappy application of
camouflage paint is typical of this
company’s tanks. Note that although
the photograph on which our
illustration is based was taken in
May, this vehicle does not have the
bracket on the hull rear and also
retains one of the large mudguards.

Right: Pzkw V Panther ausf A.

6.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.
This tank has been almost completely
covered in dark shades of paint without
regard for either the turret number or
the Balkenkreuz national insignia on
the hull front. A series of photographs
of this tank can be seen on page 31.

At left: An interesting photograph of Panther 611 seen from the left hand side which
must have been taken at approximately the same time as the image used to produce
our illustration.

Right: Pzkw V Panther ausf A.

6.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.
This tank features an almost identical
camouflage scheme to that shown on
Panther 611, above. Note however,
that the turret number here has been
hand painted and that an unditching
beam is carried on the rear hull
although the bracket has yet to make
its appearance.

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Right: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 7.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.
Photographed during the operations east of Warsaw in August 1944, this
tank was the mount of the company commander,
Obersturmführer ‘Iron Otto’ Schneider.

Below: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 7.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. Still bearing its coat of
whitewash camouflage this tank must have been photographed sometime in April 1944. At least
one account attests to the comprehensive application of white paint that is apparent here. The full
mudguards were a feature of the battalion’s Panthers when they arrived in Poland and this tank
has only lost one due to the traumatic track damaged. In the original photograph
there is evidence of what may be a thin, dark line around the turret number although
it is not clear enough to make a definitive pronouncement.

B e l o w, r i g h t : A n o t h e r
depiction of Panther 713, this
time without its coat of
whitewash camouflage. Note
the name, Berti, and the
sword insignia. It is almost
certain that the latter was
restricted to the tanks of
7.Kompanie.

Below: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 7.Kompanie,

SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. The two views show
this tank as it appeared in late 1943, just before
the company left France (top), and in August
1944 when the tanks of this company were
filmed fighting east of Warsaw with units of
3.SS-Panzer-Division. The similarity of the early
version to Panther 713 is obvious and note that
both have the division’s insignia painted over
the Zimmerit coating - unlike our photograph at
left. In the later version the mottled camouflage
has been replaced by broad bands of colour on
the Dunkelgelb base. Note also that the
headlight is missing.
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 Below: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. Photographed in July or August 1944 this tank
carries an unusually rough, apparently hand-painted, number. Although the company commander, Karl Nicolussi-
Leck, was photographed standing in the cupola of this tank we feel sure that this vehicle was in fact commanded by
the company’s adjutant as Panther 800 - shown on page 17 - was fully operational at this time. This tank was in all
probability a convenient prop used by a visiting
Propaganda-Kompanie photographer in
which to place the now famous
Nicolussi-Leck.

Above: A rear view of Panther 801

showing the later exhausts and
the horizontal position of the jack.
Note that the tank’s number has
been applied in a much neater
fashion than that on the turret
sides.

At left: The right side of the turret of the Panther

depicted below. Note that the Zimmerit has not been
removed from this side although the photograph on
which this drawing was based was taken long after
that shown at far left.

Right: Pzkw V Panther ausf A.

8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5.
Photographed during the fighting east
of Warsaw in August, this tank displays
modifications which are by now
identifying features of the division’s
Panthers: the bracket for the unditching
beam on the rear hull and the removal of
a small, shield-shaped section of
Zimmerit from the turret. Also of note is
the metal tube protecting the antenna
base and insulator.

Right: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 8.Kompanie, SS-

Panzer-Regiment 5. Photographed on the Kovel
railway line just south of Cherkasy this tank was
disabled by a Soviet mine. Note the unusual
method by which the Zimmerit has been
applied similarly to Panther 801 shown at the
top of this page.

Right and above: Pzkw V Panther ausf

A. 8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment
5. In common with many tanks of this
company, a patch of Zimmerit has been
neatly cleared from the turret,
presumably to accommodate the
division’s unit insignia. We have
however, been unable to find a single
instance of the latter ever being
applied.
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 Below: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-
Regiment 5. The bracket welded to the rear hull was a
common feature by the time of the summer battles. Used
for holding an unditching beam, this field modification
made its appearance at around the time of the fighting
near Maciejów and is not seen on any of the Panthers
which took part in the Kovel battles. The bracket is still
absent on tanks known to have been photographed in
May.

Above: A rear view of Panther 823.

Note the early type of exhaust
system and the horizontally
mounted jack. The unditching beam
bracket has intentionally been
omitted from this drawing.

Left: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 8.Kompanie, SS-

Panzer-Regiment 5. By the time of the August
battles many, if not all, 8.Kompanie tanks carried
the division’s insignia as shown
here. It would seem that the left
side only of the turrets was
prepared but for some reason
the shield and sun-wheel motif
were never painted on.

Above: Panther number 833. Note the

wooden beam at the hull rear and the
patch where the Zimmerit has been
removed next to the
driver’s visor.

Below: Pzkw V Panther ausf A. 8.Kompanie, SS-Panzer-Regiment 5. Photographed in company with

Panther number II00 depicted on page 13, probably near the village of Stari Koshary in early April 1944,
this tank gives a good impression of how most, if not all, the company’s Panthers appeared during the
fighting for Kovel.

Above: A rear view of tank number

834. In his account of the fighting
here Manfred Renz, the commander
of the reconnaissance platoon,
mentions that the whitewash
camouflage of his tank at least was
refreshed before going into action.
Of note are the horizontal jack and
early exhausts.
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Sdkfz 251/9 ausf D. 9.Kompanie, III.Abteilung, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 Germania.
Photographed during the August battles, this halftrack presents an appearance typical of this
battalion’s vehicles. The halftracks of III.Abtielung used a system whereby the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4
identified the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth companies respectively. The number was repeated on
the rear access doors as shown here. Many halftracks carried the divisions unit insignia and an
appropriate tactical marking although this vehicle certainly did not.

Sdkfz 251/1 ausf D. 10.Kompanie, III.Abteilung, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 Germania. Photographed

next to Karl nicolussi-Lecks’ Panther 800 in August 1944, this command halftrack belongs to the headquarters
of 10.Kompanie. Note the clock face painted on the inside of the machine gun shield.

Sdkfz 251/1 ausf D. 11.Kompanie, III.Abteilung, SS-

Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 Germania. This vehicle
was filmed in company with Panther tanks of SS-Panzer-
Regiment 3 of the Totenkopf division dating the image to
August or September 1944.

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This photograph and those on the following pages depict the vehicles and men of the Wiking
division and most, if not all, were taken at the SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager located
between Dêbica and Sandomierz in Poland in early May 1944. We are able to date this series
with some certainty as several photographs show Mother’s day cards being printing and
made ready for issue to the troops. Here men of the first platoon of 6.Kompanie train on their
Pzkw V Panther tanks. Both are later model ausf A vehicles and carry the hurried, rather
scrappy camouflage common to many tanks of this company. The tank in the foreground,
number 611, is also shown in the illustration section on page 18. The Panther in the
background is numbered 615 which indicates that this platoon at least had its full
complement of tanks.
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The photographs on this page show Panther 613 - note the number 3 just visible on the turret rear access hatch in the photograph above - bogged in thick mud
almost to the tops of its wheels, being dragged free by Panther 612. The picture above offers the reader a good view of the exhaust system and the vertically
mounted jack. Note that the field modified bracket used to hold the unditching beam, which became an identifying feature of this division’s tanks, is not yet
present although the beam is clearly visible, strapped to the spare tracks. It is possible - or even likely - that the last of these metal brackets were added before
the division left Heidelager, although some 8.Kompanie tanks had them as early as April. The flat, marshy terrain, bordered by woods, is typical of eastern
Poland and what is today western Ukraine and Belarus.

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The same tank shown on the previous page, Panther 613 - in happier circumstances. Note that the
number three has recently been repainted giving the impression that it is a different colour entirely
to the first two. Tanks very quickly attain a dirty and worn appearance - even in training - and
numbers and markings that are sometimes identified as yellow are very often actually white, albeit
with a coat of grime. As with most of the Wiking division Panthers this tank is fitted with the later, re-
inforced 24-bolt wheels.

Panther 613 undergoing maintenance after being concealed in a pine forest. Again
the number 3 is just visible on the rear access hatch of the turret. On the original
print of this photograph it can be seen that the 200 litre (44 gallon) drum is actually
full of lubricant with the notation ‘Schmierstoff - 200L - Feuergefährlich’ embossed
on the top.

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 Although this tank’s number is entirely concealed there can be no
doubting the style of camouflage painting that is an identifying
feature of 6.Kompanie Panthers. Of note if the later type exhaust,
clearly visible here.

Although the presence of these Soviet prisoners would give the impression that this photograph was
taken in a front line area, this image was almost certainly made at the the SS Heidelager training
ground north of Dêbica and these Russians are in all likelihood the Hiwis, or Hilfswilliger, that
accompanied every German unit in the East. Located between the Wis³a (Vistula) and San rivers, the
Heidelager facility covered an enormous area and featured large patches of heavily wooded terrain in
addition to large open stretches dominated by low hills and soft, sandy ground broken by marshes and
swamps. A railway line, visible in the background, ran through the area from east to west cutting the
training complex almost in half. The photograph on which our illustration of Panther 632 is based,
shown on page 18, was also taken in this location.
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 The tank shown here is almost certainly Panther 613 depicted on the previous pages and the
Hauptscharführer is very possibly the platoon commander - senior NCO’s commonly fulfilling positions
normally held by officers at this stage of the war. This image offers a good view of the opened driver’s visor,
the Bosch headlight and the later 24-bolt wheels.

Although images of Panther tanks towing Russian anti-tank guns may be quite rare,
other photos in this series - unfortunately of poor quality - show that each tank in this
platoon had their own gun. Several detailed narratives of the division’s history exist,
however none mention, or even hint, that these guns may have been used in action by
the tank crews. As these photographs were taken while the company was in training it is
highly likely that the guns were left at Heidlager when the division returned to combat.
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In a landscape typical of the SS Heidelager training ground a Hauptsturmführer confers with the NCO’s of his company. In
another photograph of this series, this same officer is seen in the company of the tank commander and infantry officer
shown on page 30. These photographs were almost certainly taken at the same time and probably show a mixed group of
personnel from 6.Kompanie of SS-Panzer-Regiment 5 and one of the divisions Panzergrenadier regiments - either Germania
or Westland. Although we have carried out extensive research we have been unable to identify the Hauptsturmführer -
possibly a company commander - and would be grateful to hear from any reader who may be able to help.

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Q5 totus concupifcentia : ira quoque in Greco. In Mf, veró S. Theod.
ita : Guttur illius fuaviffimum , 9 totus defiderium : deinde, talis efl
dilelus meus , 88 amictes meus , filia Jeruf. Gr. ὅτος ἀδελφιδός ut y
X, ὅτος πλησίον ut s θυγαέρες Iegece»va. Y.17. Mf. S. 'Theoder. nil
omnino differt à Vulg. Gracé ita : Πξ ἀπῆλθεν ὁ ἀδελφιδός (ὁ. M
χαλὴ ἐν γυναιξί 5 πῇ ἀπέθλεψεν ὁ ἀδελφιδός ov 5 x, &c. utin Lat. i.e,
Quà abit frawrmus tuns , pulchra. in mulieribus ? quà refpexit
fratermus tuns ? 6$, δες, COASPUDOT wp VrRsIO ANTIQUA. I. gere
lilia. 2. Egofratri meo , & frater metis mihi , qui pafcit inter lilia. 3.
Formofà es proxima mea ut bona opinio , pulchra ut Jerufalem ; ?
ficut admiratio ordinata. 4. Averte oculos tuos à me... ^
Capillamentum tuum ut grex tobfarum , quz revelata funt à monte
Galaad. s. Dentes tui ut grex tonfarum , qux afcenderunt de lavacro,
quz omnes geminos creant, & infecunda non eft in eis : ut refticula
coccinea labia tua..... 6. Ut corium malorum granatorum , gen
tug..... 7. Sexaginta funt reginz , & o&oginta concuPrircip.te. 2.692.
binc, ὃς adolefcentule quarum non eft numerus. 8. * Una eft
columba mea, perfecta mea , una eft matri fuz, ele&a genitrici iue.
Viderunt eam Rater meus defcendit in hortum fuum in phialas
aromatis , pafcere in hortis , & colliVULGATA NOVA. Ile&us meus
defcendit ad hortum fuum ad areolam aromatum, ut pafcatur in
hortis, & lilia colligat. :. Ego dile&o meo, ὃς dile&us meus mihi, qui
pafcitur inter lilia. 3. Pulchra es amica mea,fuavis, & decora ficut
Jerufalem : terribilis ut caftrorum acies ordinata. 4. Averte oculos
tuos à me, quia ipfi me avolare fecerunt. Capilli tui ficut grex
caprarum, quz apparuerunt de Galaad, ἢ 5. Dentes tui ficut grex
ovium , quz afcenderunt de lavacro, omnes gemellis fetibus , ὅς
fterilis non eft in eis. Y. 6. Sicut cortex mali punici, fic genz tue
abfque occultis tuis. 7. Sexaginta funt regine , & octoginta
concubine, ὅς adolefcentularum non eft numerus. 8. Una eft
columba mea, perfe&a mea, una eft matris fuz , ele&a genitrici fuz.
VideNor£ Ap VERSIONEM ANTIQUA M. Y. τ. Ad verbum € Grzco , ni(i
excipiatur frater , pro quo hic & alibi conftanter , ἀδιελφιδός. Hieron.
in Zach. 14. to. 3. 1204. e. Fratruelis meus defcendit in bortum
meum ad plialas aromatum. , paftere im bortis, Q9 colligere lilia. ln
Mf. Alex. fimiliter, ei; χῆπόν μὲ. 2m bortum meum 5 in alis, ἀυτῷ »
ut fup. in textu. In Mf, S. Theoder. omnia utin Vulg. prater fingul.
aromatz$ , oco aromatum. Y.2. Sic iterum Ambrof. |. de Ifaac , c, 8.
col. 379. b. unà cum Graxco. Mf. S. Theoder. Vulgate confonat. Y. 3.
Hic verfus totus pene fumitur ex 1. 1. de virg. uia tantüm verba ult.
fíezt admiratio ordinata , ex l. de Ifaac,c. 7. hoc tamen pefteriori loco
, antecedunt ifta : Jam mon foli [eror dicitur , fed etiam. beneplacita.
nominantr.,.. 65 fpeciofa ficut Jernf. 1n Mf. S. 'Theoder. pariter :
Beneplacita. es Jorer mea , Jpeciofa ftcut. Jernf. admirao ficut
ordinata. Grace : Καλὴ εἶ ἡ πληοίον μὲ» ὡς eUδοχία ( Symm.
εὐδοχητὴ» ) ὡραῖα ὡς “Ἱερεσαλὴμ » θάμξος ὡς τεταγμέναι. Y. 4. ln
Mf. S. Theoder. omnia ut in Vulg. excepto uno qtia me elevas , loco
quia ipft me avolare fecerunt, Ín Graco :᾿Απόςρεψον ὀφθαλμός cu
ἀπεναντίον uw » ὅτι GU ol ἀνεπτέρωσαν με. Τρίχωμά ov ὡς ἀγέλαι
τῶν αἴγων y ai ἀνεφείνησαν dui τὸ Γαλαάφ', d. 8. werte eindes ἐμοῦ
ὃ regie ne mei , quia ipft avolare fecerunt me. Capillamemum tuum
ficut greges caprarum , qua apparuerunt ὁ Galaad. X.$. Eadem funt
in Greco, preter unum plur. γέλα!» greges, pro grex. Gr. extremo
addit, καὶ αὶ λαλία (Cw degla, €g eloquium tuum decorum. Vide
rurfum Ambrof. in Pf. 118. to. 1. p. 1161. e. & epift. 30. to. 2. p.
912. a. Apud Auguft. fimilia , cüm epift. 149. to. 2. $05. c. tum l. 2.
de doctr. Chr. to. 3. 21, e. nifi quod leg. /7cur grex. detonfarum.
afcendens de lavacro..., €9 flerilis non eft in illis; nec plura. Item
apud Caffiod. in Pf. 77. p. . 271. c. Dentes tui ficut. grex. son[arum
a[cendens. de lavacro, qu& omnes geminos creant, ξῦ flerilis monefb
inei; nec fequuntur alia. In Mf. S. Theoder. omnia ut in Vulg. Y. 6.
Grac. Ὡς λέπυρον τῆς poko, μῆλόν GE, ἐχτὸς τῆς (ἰωπύσεώς cg. 1. €.
ὅθ: cortex mali punici , gena tua extra taciturnitatem tunm. Mf. S.
'Theoder. Sicut cortex... ffe gena tua abfque oculis 5 1. occultis. Y. 7.
Ad verbumé Greco. Ita quoque legit Auguft. l. de div. queft. 4. $5.
to. 6. col. 25. ΜΙ, 5, Theoder. utin Vulg. y.8. Eadem refert Cypr. cüm
epift. 76. p. 152. b. tum l|. de unit. Eccl. p. 195. a. ufque ad verbum
vidernnr. Ita quoque S. Pacian. epift. 1. p. 306. d. ni(i quód hab.
eleda ef, Hieron, ep. ad. Princip. col, 69a, b. Una εβ co 
 CANTICUM CANTICORUM. Cap. VII. VurGATA NOVA. runt
eam filie , & beatiffimam przdicaverunt ; regine & concubine , &
laudaverunt eam. 9. Que eft ifta, qux progreditur quaff aucora
confurgens , pulchra ut luna , ele&a ut fol , terribilis ut caftrorum
acies ordinata ? το. Defcendi in hortum nucum, ut viderem poma
convallium , & infpicerem fi floruiffet vinea, & germinaffent mala
punica. rr. Nefcivi: anima mea conturbavit me propter quadrigas
Aminadab. rz. Revertere, revertere Sulamitis : reverteτῷ j,revertere ,
ut intueamur te. 385 VERSIO ANTIQUA. 11..... pofuit me currus
Aminadab. 12, Convertere , convertere Sunamitis : convertere, &
videbimus te. Nor£ AD VERSIONEM ANTIQUA M. dumba mea ,
perfetla snea , proxima mea. Rufin. in Symb, p. 189. c. Uza eft
columba mea , wuna eft perfetla genitrici fuc. Auguft.tract. 6. in Joh.
to. 3. p. 2. col. 337. b. Uza eft columba mea , una eft matri fua.
Optat. 1. 4. cont. Donat. p.74. b. Uma eft dilella mea , una eft [pon
a mea, una eft. columba mea. Cafliod. in Pf. 4. p. 21. c. Una eft
columba mea , una eft fpon[x mea. Siricius. PP. epift. ro. to. 1. 692.
c. Uza eft columba mea, una eft perféla mea, una efl genitrici fue.
Auct. op. imp. in Matth. hom. 48. p. 2or. d. Uza eft columba mea ,
perjéla mea. Grac. veró nil differt à textu Ambr. nifi quód hab. circa
med. ἐχλεχτή ἐσὶ τῇ τεχύσῃ αὑτήν. elela. efl ei que peperit ipfam ; &
fub finem , uaxaeiva..... X, αἰγέσυσι , beatificabunt.... Q9 laudabunt ,
non beatificant.... €9 laudant. Mf. S. 'Theoder. ut in Vulg. deleto uno
(5, anτε laudaverunt, Y.9. Eadem repetit Ambrof. l, 4. Hex. col. 77. f.
ufque ad vocem miraculum : ita. rurfum 1, de Ifaac ,c. 7. & 8. col.
377. a. 380. b. & de ob. Val. to. 2. 1190. €. Sic etiam Hieron. ep. 18.
ad Euftoch. to. 4. p. 2. col. 49. b. at in Ifai. 66. to. 3. $12. f. legit :
Ore ef bac, qua procefft quaft diluculum , pulchra ut Tuna » €9 elea
πε fol, admirabilis? Grace : Tis αὑτὴ ἡ ἐχχύπτυσα ὡσεὶ opÜgoc, καλὴ
ὡἧς σελήνη. ἐχλεχτὴ ὡς 0 ἥλιος. θάμβος ὡς τεταγμέναι; in. ed. Ald.
τεταγμένη 5 pavor ut ordinata , vel erdinata, Mf. S. Theoder.
Quaenam bec eft profpiciens tanq. diluculum , fpeciofa fecut luna ,
&c. ut in Vulg. Y.10. Ad verbum é Graco, hoc excepto , zz nativitate,
pro quo ó γεννήμασι 5 at in Mf. Alex. ἐν γενήματι 5 in edd, Ald. &
Compl. ὧν γενγήκα7ι. Gr. extremo addit, ἰδεῖν ei ἤνθησεν ἡ ἄμπελος,
ἐξήνθησαν αἱ ῥοαί" i. e. videre fr. floruit Hs, effloruerunt mala
punica, In Mf, S. Theoder. omnia ut in Vulg. prater fingul. cenvallis ,
loco plur. cozvallium. Hieron. in Zach. 12. col. 1786. b. legit :
Defteudz ut viderem in genimine torrentis , Ji f'ovuiffet vinea , Νὰ
florusffent mala punica. Y. 11. Grzcé premittuntur ifta : Ἐκεῖ δώσω
τὲς uas; p σοί" ἐκ ἔγνω ἡ ψυχή uy* deinde , ἔθετό με. &c. ut in Lar.
i.e. 1ὑὴ dabo ubera mea tibi : non novit azima mea : pofuit me, &c.
Mf. S. Theoder. cum Vulg. Nefii : anima mea tttrbavit me; dein veró
cum Ambr. pofzzt me currus Aminadab : idem. Ambr. in Pf. 118. to.
1, col. 993. c. leg. pofuz te currus Aminadab : & |. 2. de Abr.c. 8.
col. 336. b. poefuifli me currus, &c. at |. de Nabut. c. 15. col. $84. b.
necnon altero de virginit. to. 2, 236. c. ut fup. pofuzt sme , &c. Y.
12. ltidem Grece , geminato verbo cezvertere , poft Sunamitis ,
pofitoque ult. ἐν σοί, 42 te, non fimpliciter ze. In Mf. S. Theoder.
breviüs : Convertere Sunamitis : conVertere , ut zntueamtr te. Jtem.
Ambrof. 1, de Ifaac , c. 8. col. 378. d. leg. Convertere Sunamitis ,
convertere ; at de ob. Val. to. 2. 1191. b. fcribit Solamitis ; Mf. Alex.
cum edd. Ald. & Compl. Σελαμίτις. C AME COSTS E, I. VULGATA
NOVA. Uid videbis in Sulamite , nifi choros caftrorum ὁ Quàm pulchri
funt. greffüs tui in calceamentis, filia principis! Juncturz femorum
tuorum, ficut monilia quz fabricata funt manu artificis, 2. Umbilicus
tuus crater tornatilis ; nunquam indigens poculis. Venter tuus ficut
acervus tritici, vallatus liliis. 3. Duo ubera tua, ficut duo hinnuli
gemelli caprez. 4. Collum tuum ficut turris eburnea, Oculi tui ficut
pifcinz in Hefebon, quz funt in porta filie multitudinis. Nafus tuus
ficut turris Libani, quz refpicit contra Damafcum. à. VEgRs10
ANTIQUA. chori caftrorum ὃ ἃ Speciofi fadi fünt greffus tui in
calceamentis, filia Aminadab. Moduli femorum tuorum, fimiles
torquibus, operi manuum artificis. 2. Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis ,
non deficiens mifto. Venter tuus ficut acervus tritici, muniti inter lilia.
3». Fide Not. 4. Cervix tua ficut turris eburnea. Oculi tui (icut ftagna
in Efebon , in portis filiz multorum. Nares tuz ficut turris Libani ,
profpiciens faciem Damaífci. NoT£ Ap VERSIONEM ANTIQUA M. Y. 1.
Nonnulla variant Grecé, fed levia ; nempe, ὧν Xwyauiridi, pro in
Solamitide ; paulóque poft , à ὑποϑδιύ-past cu » θύγατερ Ναδάξ,, in
calceamentis tuis » filia. Nadab; fubinde deeft zwerum, poft
femorum ; extiemo , ἔργον rexyi]u , opus artificis , pro operá
manuum , &c. fed in Mf, Alex, ut in Lat. fup. 'Apwad 4C. "Putus papa
6E... ἔργῳ χειρῶν τεχγίτε' in edd. etiam Ald. ὃς Compl. μηρῶν σέ.....
ἔργῳ χειρὼν τεχγίτε" in. Compl.gpjay : ὃς veτὸ idem Ambrof. in Pf.
118, col. 1188. c. leg. /fmiles vorquibus opere artificis ; & inf. 1189.
d, opere manutun artificis ; cet. ut in textu. Ap. Hieron. l. r. cont.
Jovin. t0. 4. 173. d. Speciofi fadi funt greffus tmi in calceamentis filii
Aminadab. Mf. S. 'Theoder. ita primum hab, cum Vulg. Quid videbis
in Sulamite , nift choros caffrorum ? exinde cum Ambrof, Specioff
fatli funt, &c, ut in textu, excepto uno opere, pro operz. Y. 2. Eadem
rurfus habet Ambr. in Pf, 118. to, r, 1189. f. & epift. 64. to. 2. 1051.
a. necnon de ob. Valent, 1192, a. hoc tamen ult, loco Mf;, quidam
ponnnt don. 1H mif, non miflo; ficut inf. smieuti, loco enuniti : imo
Mfs. omnes aliis 2. locis cit. nempe in Pf. 118. ὅς ep. 64. legunt
minuti inter lilia , cum vet. editt. Sed lapfus calami eft, ni fallor, ortus
videlicet ex fimilitudine vocum aumiti.é minuti ;nam in Greco
conftanter , ϑηκωvie, Cc πεφραγμένη, acervus frumenti allatus. In.
Mf. 8. "Theoder. Umbilicus tuus tanquam crater. tornatilis , miflo mon
deficiens, Venter tuns... vallatus liliis. Yn Gr. Ὀ μφαλός GE χϑατὴρ
τορευτὸς, μῊ UstpeMyuoc χράμα ( Mf. Alex. κράματος. ) Κοιλία cw
θυμωνία...... cy κρίνοις. Similiter ap. Ambrof. fup. epift. 64. ac de ob.
Valent. deeft /icut , ante acervts; fed in Pf. 118. habetur tasquam ,
ante crater. Apud Optat. quoque 1. 2. cont. Donar. p. 33. a.
Umbilicus tus; "up ocrater tornatilis, Y.3. Mf. S. 'Theoder. cum Vulg.
& Gr. Dwo ubira ta, ficut duo binnuli capree gemells. Y.4. Ita rurfum
Grace, praeter unum fingul. qux] c6, naris tua , loco plur. πάγος ttt.
In Mf. S. 'Theoder. ita : Collum iuum ficut...» Ocitls 1i flagna in
Efibon , in cc filiz, & beatificant eam; reginz & concubinz, Hieron. uL;
fup, & laudant eam. 9. Quaxnam eft hzc profpiciens tanquam dilu- —
Ambrof de bened. culum , fpeciofa ficut luna , electa ficut fol, mi-
Parr. «.10. p. 526. raculum ficut ornatus ? P 10. In hortum nucis
defcendi videre in nativitate torrentis..... ΄ ldem de Ifaac, €. 8. p.
377. 4. Ibid. 378.2. c ldem ep. 30. p. 914. b. τὸ de cb. Val. t. 2.
1191.4, tvi Uid videbitisin Solamitide, que venitficut 45.4. οὗ. Val, to.
2. I19I. c.e. 2 ]dem l. de infit. tirg.t. 2, 268. c. f. ldem de ob. Val, t0.
2. 1192. a. Idem in Pf. 118. to. 1. p. 1028. f. I171.f. e
 Ambrof. uli fup. 1190. ὁ. Idem dc M yfi. to. 2.335. 0. ldem
|l. 3. Hexa. to. 1. $4. b. 61. d. 4 [dem de Spir. S. 10. 2.647. 4. b tim.
2. de fidc, p. 476. o. Idem 1. de Tac, e. 9. t0. 1. 379. b. € Jdem de
apel. Dav. p. 724. c. p. 55. e. €9 in Df. 119. p. 1216. a. 1255.4.
Ambr. de ob. Val. t^. 2. 1192. f. 396 VERSIO ANTIQU A. 5-.... &
ornatus capitis tui , ficut purpura..... 6. Quàm pulchra & fuavis facta
es charitas , in deliciis tuis ! 7. Statura tua fimilis fa&ta eft palme, &
ubera tua botris. 8. Dixi: Afcendam in palmam, tenebo altitudines
ejus..... ^ & odor naris tuz ficut mala. 9. ^ Et faux tua tanquam
vinum optimum..... ro. Ego fratri meo, & fuper me converfio cjus. 11.
* Veni frater meus, exeamus in agrum , requiefcamus in caftellis. 12.
Diluculo fürgamus in vineas, videamus fi d Idem 1, 3. Hexa. floruit
vitis..... * floruerunt mala granata : ibi dabo ubera mea tibi. 13.
Dederunt mandragorx odorem , & in foribus noftris omnis fetus
arborum : nova & vetera, frater meus, fervavi tibi. CANTICUM
CANTICORUM. Cap. VIII. VjuLGATA NOVA. $. Caput tuum ut
Carmelus : & coma capitis tui, ficut purpura regis vin&a canalibus. 6.
Quàm pulchra es, & quàm decora chariffima , in deliciis ! 7. Statura
tua affimilata eft palmz, & ubera tua botris, 8. Dixi: Afcendam in
palmam , & apprehen᾿ dam fructus ejus : & erunt ubera tua ficut
bo» tri vinez : ὃς odor oris tui ficut malorum. 9. Guttur tuum ficut
vinum optimum , dignum dile&o meo ad potandum, labüfque ὅς
dentibus illius ad ruminandum. 10, Ego dilecto meo, & ad me
converfio ejus. 1r. Veni dile&e mi, egrediamur in agrum ,
commoremur in villis. 1:. Mané furgamus ad vineas, videamus fi
floruit vinea, fi flores fru&us parturiunt , fi floruerunt mala punica :ibi
dabo tibi ubera mea. 15. Mandragorze dederunt odorem. In portis
noftris omnia poma : nova & vetera, dilecte mi, fervavi tibi. ΝΟΤΕ Ap
VERSIONEM ANTIQU A M. portis filis multorum. Nares 1. ficut turris
Lib. qua τε" picit contra Damaf[cum. X. 5. Mf. S. Theoder. Capat
taum ut Carmelus ; (5 coma tue ficut. purpura vegis junila canalibus,
Gr. Κεφαλή cy ἐπὶ b. ὡς Κάρμηλος" X, πλόχιον χεφαλὴς 6E » ὡς"
TTOppUE* βασιλεὺς διεδεμένος ἐν παρα διρομαῖς, 1. e. Caput tuum.
fuper 1e , ficut Carmelus : 9. plexus capitis tui , fücut purpura; rex
ligatus in tran[curfibus. Y. 6. Sic iterum Ambrof. de ob. Val. to, 2.
1192. c. cum Mf. S. Theoder, at l. de Myft. col. 335. b. ὅς l. de Ifaac,
c. 8. to. 1. 379. e. Ambr. leg. Quid pulchra £9 fuavis , &c. ut fupra.
In Gr. Τί ὡραιώδης s τὺ gí dd ύνθης ἀγάπν ἐν » &c. Similiter ap. Aug.
l. 17. de civit. Dei, c. 20, col. 485. b. charitas in deliciis tuis. Y.7.
Idem Ambrof.l. 3. Hex. col. 6r. b. &l. de Ifaac , c. 8. col. 378. e.
conftanter legit : Statura tua fimilis facia efl palma. Sic etiam. in Mf.
S. Theoder. cum íeqq. fup. Gr. Τῦτο μέγεθός (t etie τῷ φοίνικι , &c.
Hac magnirido [77 : femilis fatla es palma , &c. ut fup. Ap. Aquil.
aUrW ανάς αοίς cy , δες. ap. Symm. αὕτη ἡλικίᾳ cv , deinde in Mf,
Alex. ὠμοιώβη. : y. 8. Mf. S. 'Theoder. Dixi : Afcendam in palmam ,
Ὁ manducabo frulus ejus : τ erant ub. tua ficut botri vines E £g
odores tui ficut malorum. Grac. Εἶπα“ ᾿Αναθήσομαι ἐπὶ 4G φοίνικι,
χρατήσω τῶν ὑψεων duTE* καὶ ἐσογγαι δ ἡ μαςοί Im ὡς βότρυες
τὸς ἀμπέλε" X, ὀσμὴ ῥινός cw ὡς μῦλα. Vide etiam Ambr. 1. de Ifaac,
c. ὃ, col. 372. e. Y.9. Mf. S. Theoder. Guttur tuin. ficut. vinum.
optimm. dilelo meo αὐ potandum , labii[gue «9 dentibus
ruminandum. Grac. Καὶ ὁ χάρυγξ, cw ὡς οἶγος ὁ ἀγαθος,
πορευόμδινος τῷ ἀδιελφιδεῷ μὲ εἰς εὐθύτντα., ἱχανύμϑνος χείλεσί ue
X, dd £a. 1. e. Ft guttur tuum ficut vinum bonum , vadens fraterno
meo. in vellitudinem ,. [njfwiens labiis meis [Ὁ] dentibus, Idem
Ambrof, |. 3. Hex, col. 61. d, legit : Et fauces tue ficut vinum
opiimum. Y. το. Sic iterum Ambrof. de ob. Val. to. 2. 1192. c. unà
cum Mf. 5, 'Theoder. & Graco. Y. 11. Eadem refert Ambrof. t. de Ifaac
, c. 8. to. t. 379. d. & in Pf. 118. col. 1215. e. 1255. d. & in Luc. 17.
col. 1481. a. & l. de virginit. to. 2. 221. f. & de obitu Val. col, 1192.
d. f. nec diverfa in Greco , preter unum , ἀδελφιδιέ $35 fed. Ambrof.
1, 1 de virgin. to. 2. 157. f. leg. fraterne mi , al. frater mi. Sic etiamin
Mf, S. TTheoder. ut & alia que leguntur fupra. Y. 12. Mf, S, Theoder.
Dzluculo furgamus im. vineis , videamus fi floruit vitis , deinde , ff
flores , &c, ut in Vulg. Gr. ᾿Ορθρίσωμδν εἰς ἀμπελῶνας, ἴδιωμδυ εἰ
ἤνθησεν ἢ ἄμπελος, ἤνθησεν ὁ χυπριομὸς , ἤγθησαν αἱ pom[* ἐκεῖ
δώσω τὲς μαςός μὰ σοί. Vide etiam Ambr. in Pf. 118, to. x, 1215. e.
ὅς l, de virginit. to. 2. 221. f. necnon de ob. Valent. col. 1192. d. ubi
iterum legit qux fup.án textu, Hieron. in lfai. 35. to. 3. 280. d. flores
vifi fant in terra. ἢ Y.13. Nonnulla de his rurfus citat Ambrof. de apol.
Dav. to. 1. 724. c. ὅς epift. 39. to. 2. 945. e. necnon de obiru Val.
col. 1192. f. nifi quód hic hab, om»es fetus arbortm. Grec. πάντα
ἀκρόδρυα 5 deinde ,γέα πρὸς παλαιὰς ἀδελφιδέ μὲ» ἐτηρησά (Corr
1. e. omnes nuces novas ad veteres , fraterne mi , fervavi tibi ; cxt.
ut in Lat, fup. Hieron. in Ifai. 35. το, 3. 280. d. Mandragora dederunt
odorem [uum : & (up. col. 2. f. ac in Matth. 13. to. 4. 60. d. uova &9
vetera , fratruelis meus , fervavi tibi ; Ms. 2. ibid. sova cum
veteribus. Mf. S. 'Theoder. Ibi dederunt mangragorg odorem 5
ftatimque , uova [9 vetera, frater meus , fervavi tibi, pretermiffis
mediis , eg im foribus, &c. CAP, U dux Mola VERSIO ANTIQUA. L Uis
dabit te , frater , fratrem mihiladentem ubera matris mex? inveniens
te foris , ofculabor te, & quidem non fpernent me. 2. Adfümam te, &
inducam te in domum matris mez, & in fecretum ejus quz concepit
me : potum dabo tibi à vino operofi unguenti, à fluxu malorum
granatorum meorum. VULGATA NOVA. Uis mihi det te fratrem meum
fugentem ubera matris mez , ut inveniam te foris, & deofculer te , &
jam me nemo defpiciat? 2. Apprehendamte , & ducam in domum
matris mez : ibi me docebis , & dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito, &
muftum malorum granatorum meorum. Nor£ AD VERSIONEM
ANTIQUA M. y. 1. Mf. S. Theoder. initio hab. Quis dabit te frairem.
laClentem ubera ; reliqua ut in textu, Grec. Tí; dM ec, ἀδελφιδέ μὲ»
θυλάζονγα , δες, ut in Lat, Aquila, Τίς δώσει σε ὡς ἀδιελφὸν ἐμαὶ.
&c. in ed. Compl. pariter ἀδελφόν. Idem Ambrof, 1. de Ifaac, c. 8.
col, 379. f. Quis dabit te , frater , lallantem , &c. ut. fup. at 1, de
inftit. virg. to. 2. 250. f. Quis dabit te fratrem mibi lactentem , δίς,
qux fup. & l. de Myft. col. 335. b. Oui; dalit te , frater , mibi
latlentem , &c. ὃς de apol. Dav. to. 1. 724. d. Quis dabis ie, frater
meus , lallantem , &c, ὃς in Pf. 118. col. 1216. c. Quis dabit te
fratrem lallentem , &c.que£ fupra. Y.2. Mf. S. 'Theoder. primó legit
cum Ambr. Affamam te, 9 inducam in dom. matris mea , ξδ in
fecretum ejus qua me concepit : deinde , 2i me docebis , 9 dabo tibi
.poculum , &c. ut in Vulg. Grac. Παραλήψομαί σε » εἰσάξω σε εἰς
οἶκον μητρός 4M » X, εἰς ταμεῖον τῆς συλλαξόσης jut ποτιὼ 6€ ἀπὸ
oy τῦ. μυρεψιχϑ» ἀπὸ γάματος ῥοῶν με. Multa iterum refert Ambrof,
ex his quz fup. cüm 1, de Ifaac , ς, ἃ. col. 379. f. & in Pf, 118. col,
1246. c, tum de
 CANTICUM CANTICORUM. Cap. VIII. VuLGATA NOVA. ;.
Larva ejus fub capite meo, & dextera ilius amplexabitur me. 4.
Adjuro vos filie Jerufalem , ne fufcitetis, neque evigilarefaciatis
dile&tam , donec ipfa velit. ' os. Οὐκ eft ifta, qua afcendit. de deferto
, deliciis affluens , innixa fuper dile&um fuum ? Sub arbore malo
fufcitavi te : ibi corrupta eft mater tua , ibi violata eft genitrix tua. 6.
Pone me ut fignaculum füper cor taum , ut fignaculum fuper
brachium tuum : quia fortis eft ut fnors dile&io,. dura ficut infernus
aemulatio : lampades ejus, lampadesignis atque flammarum. , 7.
Aque multe non potuerunt extinguere charitatem , nec flumina
obruent illam : fi dedexit homo omnem fubítantiam domus fux pro
dile&ione, quafi nihil defpiciet eam, 8. Soror noflra parva, & ubera
non habet: quid faciemus forori noftre in die quando alloquenda eft?
9. Si murus eft, zdificemus fuper eum propugnacula argentea : fi
oftium eft, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis. | ro. Ego murus: &
ubera mea ficut turris , ex quo fa&a fum coram eo quafi pacem
reperiens. 1:. Vinea fuit pacifico in ea , quz habet populos : tradidit
eam cuftodibus , vir affert pro fru&u ejus mille argenteos. 12. Vinea
mea coram me eft. Mille tui pa2 compledetur me. 4. Adjuravi vos filie
Jerufalem , ne fufcitetis ὃς refufcitetis diledionem , ufquequo
voluerit. s. Quz efthzc , quz afcendit dealbata , innitens fuper fratrem
fuum ὃ ἃ Sub arbore malielevavite: ? Idem 4. de Ifaac; illic parturivit
te mater tua , illic parturivit te quz * ὅ: 7. 380. *. peperit te. 6. Pone
me ut fignaculum in cor tuum , ut figillum in brachium tuum : quia
valida eft ut mors 1169. c. f. 1199. charitas , durus ficut inferi zelus :
ala ejus, alae ignis & flammz. VERSIO ANTIQU A. Lzva ejus fub
caput meum , ὃς dextera ejus 7. Àqua multa excludere non poterit
charitatem , & flumina non inundabunt eam : ? fi dederit vir omnes
facultates fuas in charitate, contemptu contemptus erit. $. Soror
noftra quid faciemus forori noftra in die qua loquetur in ca: arva, &
ubera non habet : . Simurus eft, zdificemus fuper eum receptacula :
& fi janua eft, fculpamus fuper eam tabulas cedrinas. 10. Ego murus
, & ubera mea turres : ego eram in oculis ejus tanquam inveniens
pacem. 11. Vinea facta eft Salomoni in Deelamon : dedit vineam
fuam iis qui fervant..... 12. Vitismea in confpedu meo. Mille
SalomoNor£ AD VERSIONEM ANTIQUAM. ob. Valent. col. 1176. c.
Similiter haber in Pf. 118. col. 1216. c. nifi quód poft τὸ concepit me
, fubdit cum Vulg. ibi docebis me : item 1. de Myft. to. 2. 335. c.
decebis me : lib. veró de inftit, virg. col. 251. a. Adfumam te , £9
ducam te, &c. & de apol. Dav, col. 724. e. Adfnmam te, (9 adducam
te , &c. Hieron. in Zachar. 12. to. 3. 1786. c. potabis me de vino
unguentarii , de vino saJorum .granatorum meorum : & in Zachar. 9.
col. 1764. €, de vivis malogranatorum titoritm, Y.3. Ad verbum é
Graco. Mf. S. Theoder. nil differt à Vulg. Y. 4. ΜΙ, S. Theoder.
Adjuravi vos filie Jeruf. quod Jifiitetzs. το efi feitetis dilelion.
quoufque voluerit. Auguft. veró Specul. to. 3. 717. a. Jdjsre ves filie
Jeruf. in virtutibus Q9. viribus agra , ft levaveritis charitatem ,
quoadaque velit. Οτας. “Ὥρχισα ὑμᾶς θυγατέρες Ἵερεσ. cy ταῖς ἰδζ
esas τὸ ἀγρδ » ἐὰν ἐγείρν)ε » x, ἐὰν ἐξεγείρητε τὴν ἀγαπὴν . ἕως εἰν
θελήσῃ. Y. $. Concinit Grec. ad verbum , nifi quód hab. T6 pov
ἐξήγειραί ce , Sub malo exfufcitaui te , loco Sub arbore mali elevaui
te ; quz idem fonant. Mf. S. 'Theoder. /evavi te5 initio vero ipfo , Qua
eft qua aftendit , abíque medio bac ; ct. ut ap. Ambr. fupra. Idem
Ambr. l. de Ifaac , c. 8. col. 380. a. legit : Qua eft bac, quae
afcendit. candida, &c. fic etiam in Pf, 118. col. 1152. e. & de ob. Val.
to. 2. 1194. a. &l. 2. de inrerpel. Dav. c. 4. col. 64.3. f. conftanter ,
dealbata ; ficut in Pf. 118. col. 1176. e. & de apol. Dav: col. 696. c.
& de Myft. te. 2. 334. b. lib. veró 4. de Sacram. col. 366. a. habet :
ὦπα eft bec , qua afiendit à deferto dealbata ? Au&t. 1, de "Trin, ap.
Ambr. col. 338. f. Ow eff ifla, que aftendit dealbata , innitens fupra
fratruelem fum ? Ya. quoque legit Hieron. in líai. 29. to. 3. 249. €. &
in Ezech. 27. col. 886.a. Vide etiam in Soph. 2. col. 1667. b. & in
Zach. 3.col. 1721. f. & epift. ad Euftoch. to. 4. p. 2. col. 27. f. Auguft.
de Gra. ὅς l. arb. to. 10. 725. c. Owa efl ifla , qua afcendit dealbata ,
incumbens. faper. fratruelem fuum: item. dealbata , tract. 65. in Joh.
to. 3. 674. e. ὃς in Pf. 44- col. 395. f£. cui fuffragatur Caffiod, in Pf,
4. & 44. Ῥεῖ δεν λείου Y.6. Totidem verba in Mf. S. Τβεοάεσγ, exceptá
unà conjunct. (, qua deeft ante vocem ult. f/amma ; Gr. hab. φλόγες
ἀυτῆς » flamma ejus , abfque praeced. (9 ; item fup. tollit ef? , poft
valida ; legitque Inf. Zu , infernus , loco inferi ; cet. ad verbum ut
fupra, Eorumdem multa iterum refert Ambrof. 1. de Ifaac, c. 8. col.
380. f. 281. c. & l. de Myft. to. 2. 335. d. at l. 6. de Sacram. to. 2.
381. c. legit : Pone me ut fignaculum in corde tto , ficut. fignaculum
ἐπὶ brachiis tuis : &l, x. de virgin. col. 157. f. 158. c. Pone me ut
figillum in cor tuttm , «9. veTom. AL. lut figmaculum fuper. brachium.
tum : vide etiam 1, de infüt. virg. col. 274. c. & epift. 30. col. 914. c.
Apud "Hieron. ep. 18. ad Euftoch. to. 4. p. 2. col. 49. d. Ροne me
ficut umbraculum im. corde tuo, fecut fagaaculum zn brachio tuo,
Apud Auguft. in Pf. 47. to. 4. 422. g. valida eft. ficut. mors diledio.
Apud S. Paulin. epift. 40. p. 243. b. fortis ut mors charitas. Y.7. Mf. S.
'Theoder. initio bab, cum Ambrof. Age multa: excludere non poterit.
charitatem , 5 flum. non undabunt eam. : fequentia veró ut in Vulg.
Grece "Yd op πολυ 9 δουγήσεται σθέσαι τὴν ἀγάπην , E ποταμοὶ €
Cvrov saw αὐτήν" ἐον AQ ἀνὴρ ey]m τὸν Gl» αὐτῷ ( Aquil.
(ὑμπασαν ὕπαρξιν v& oixw «UTE ) ἐν τὴ ἀγάπῃ . ἐξεδενώσει
ἐξςδεγώ(εσιν ἀυτόν. Idem Ambrof. |. 1. de Jac. c. 7. col. 453. f. legit
: Aquamulta excludere nom. poterzt charitatem , €9 flumina non
concludent eam 5; item in Pf. 118. p. 1243. d. conftanter exc/udere ;
pauló vero poft, son inundabunt eam. Hieron. ep. 18. ad Euftoch. to.
4. p. 2. col, 49. d. Aqua multe non poterunt exflinguere charitatem ,
Q5 fiumina non operient eam. Y. 8. Ita Grzcé, nifi quód pro qua
loguetur, exftat 3 ἐὰν AmxW. 1. e. qua fermo fier. Mf. S. "Theoder.
initio hab. Serer nobis parva ; reliqua ad. verbum ut fupra. Y. 9.
Itidem in Mf. S. Theoder. Grac. loco fuper eur receptacitla , hab. ἐπ᾿
ἀυτὴν ἐπάλξεις ὠργυρὰς » fuper eam propugnacula argentea 5;
exuremoque , cxyid a xed ρίνην ἡ tabu lam cedrinam 5 ct. ut in Lat.
fup. Idem Ambrof. 1, 2. de virgin. to. 2. 174. b. Sj murus efl,
adificemus fuper exin tüyres argenteas. Y.10. Sic iterum Ambrof. l. 6.
Hex. to. x. 132. f. ὃς}. de bon. mort. c. 5. col. 397. d. e. nifi quód
hoc poftremo loco hab. zt tzerres , abíque preced. t2 ; fed de apol.
Dav. col, 702. f. (5 nbera mea turris. Grace , zr, μαςοί μα ὡς πύργοι"
deinde , ἐγὼ vulw ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς avrov , &c. in Mf. veró Alex. ac edd.
Ald. & Compl. ἐν ὀφξαλμ. &vT£ , ut in Latino. Mf. S. Theoder. initio
hab. Ego ciz:tas manita , quod abeft à Gr. exinde, ego mures , C9
πες TA mea turres , &c, ut in textu , nifi excipias unum qaaJí ^ pro
tanquam. Y. 1r. Mf. S. Theoder. fimiliter habet : Visea fadle eft.
Salom. in Belammon : dedit vineam fuam bis qui fervant; deinde
cum Vulg. vzr affert pro frui ejus mille argenteos, Gracé , ἀνὴρ οἴσει
cy χαρπῶ avvE χιλίες ἀργυρίε y vir feret in fruBu ejus mille argenti 5
priora ut in textu Larino. De vocabulo autem Beelamon Ambrof. hzc
addit : Plantata autem eft in multitudine nationum ; boc enim effe
intelligendum. Beelamon , Symmachus , Aquila , alieque
Translationes Graco fermone decuerunt. YX.12. Iidem in Mf, S.
Theoder. Grac. ipfo initio hab. 'Agere»a» je ἐμὸς, Vinea mibi mea ; &
in fine, χαρCcc y Ambr. ubi fup, 1193. 4, ldem in Pf. x18. t0, 1.
1216.4, Idem in Pf. 118, 4. I216. f. 1225. d. 1255.6. 2 Ilid. p. 1244.
d; Ibid. p. 1256.4. b, lbid. 1246. «. 1257.4. 1258. c,
 Junbrof. ai fup. ni, & ducenti fervantibus fru&tum. 38€ |
CANTICUM CANTICORUM. Cap. VIII. VERS10 ANTIQUA. VurLGATA
NOVA. ciici, & ducenti his , qui cuftodiunt fru&us ejus. 13. Οὐ
habitas in hortis, amici aufcultant: fac me audire vocem tuam, r4.
Fuge dile&e mi, & affimilare caprez, hinnuloque cervorum füper
montes aromatum, 15. Quifedes in hortis, amici intendentes funt
voci tuz : vocem tuam infinua mihi. 14. Fugefrater meus , & fimilis
efto tu capreoIz, aut hinnulo cervorum fuper montes aromatum. Νοτ
AD VERSIONEM ANTIQUA HM. “πὸν dv? ; €zt. ut in Lar. fup. Rurfum
Ambrof: 1. 1. de wirgin. to. 1. 158. e. legit : Vinea mea efl in
con[peiln "meo, Mille Salemoni , $$ ducem , qui fervant fradum ejus.
X.13. Mf. S. Theoder. fimpliciter habet : Qua fedes $n. hortis , vocem
tutam infinua mibi. Gr. veró : 'O καθημᾶνος ὧν κήποις y ἑταῖρφι
προσέχοντες τῇ φωνῇ (ε΄ ἀκότισόν με" quae refpondent textui Lat.
fup. vide euam Ambr. 1, de bon. mort. c. 5. col. 397. f. Y. 14.
Similiter in Mf. 5, Theoder. duobus exceptis , capreolo, loco éapreole
; ὃς mom, pro mentes. Grzcé: Qus ἀδελφιδέ μὲ. X, ὁμοιώθητι τὴ
d'opxadu , 9 τῷ νεξμῶ TOV... ἐπὶ oM τῶν » &c. Ambrof. 1, de virginir.
to. 2. col. 226. a. ita legit : Fuge fraternus meus , (9. /Vmilis efficere
cervo , aut binnnlo cervi án montibus aromatum.
ENAARAZRASRENDUGRSS SaaS v3 oO i p 2 [9] [e "d z [1 e »o ZA
ἘΞ Ξ pr Jg tr c IT. VULGATAM DELECTUS, Au&dore FanaNcisco Luca
Brugenfi. σιν χε cU. UM Ermanus libri titulus eft Canticum numero
fingulari , non plurali Cantica. Car. L. X. 1. Ofculetur me ofculo oris
fui. Non fcribas ab ofculis pro ofculo, Y.3. In odorem unguentorum
tuorum. Non fant omíttenda bac verba , licet. Hebraicé uon exflent..
—— y. $. Pofuerunt me cuftodem in vineis. Nor eft auferenda
prepofitio in. p Y.7. Et abi poft veftigia gregum. 721: (Quorum. Car».
Il. Y. 4. Introduxit me in cellam vinariam, Na» addas rex. y.10. En
dilectus meus loquitur mihi. AJ, pro adverbio demon[ltyandi en ,
firibumt conguntlionem copulaizoam Non fubjicias pronoSequitur :
Surge , propera , amica mea , columba mea, Non facilé omitias
columba mea , tamerfr abfit ab Hebrac. Y. 13. Surge , amica mea ,
fpeciofa mea , & veni. Non eft boc loco addendum verbum propera ,
multoque miniis profpera , verbo furge. Rarfus Ípeciofa , quod eft
Í
pulchra , non efl. corrigendum Íponía. Poflremó mon eff columba
mea, ὁ proximo verfi. transferendum in bunc, ante ὅς veni. Y. 17.
Similis efto , dilecte mi , caprez hinnuloque cervorum , fuper montes
Bether. Qna obfetrum eft nomen Bether , quod fignificat.
concavitatem feu divifionem ; natiffimum autem econtra. efl nomen.
Bethel, quod. domum Dei fgnificat 5. binc faclum efl , ut notarii.
plerique, pro Bether ( qua eft Romanorum Patrum doila corretlio )
feripferint Bethel , zd eff , | pro r , primam liquidarum pro ultima.
CaP, V. Y. 6. Anima mea liquefacta eft ut locutus eft, Non addas
dilectus. E 4 01 g521^ v gia "py" py Car. VI. Y. ro. Defcendi in
hortum nucum. Cave fupponas pronomen meum pro nomine nucum
, quod quidam. Sequitur : Ut viderem poma convallium, 4/7 /zbri
feribnnt numero fingitlari convallis. s Y. 12. Revertere , revertere
Sulamitis. Idem accidit boc loco , quod fira 2. Y. 17. Sulamitis , qmod
eff nomen femininum , dedudlum à mafculina Salomon , quia alib:
non legitar , corruptum fuit , fuppofrte nomine Sunamitis ,
ce/eberrimo in tevtio( quarto libris Regum , ut pote una fola littera.
differente, Legenda itaque bic efl littera V, id eff , prima liquidarum »
prout babet Romana corre(lio , non n tertia, Car, VII. Y. 1. Quid
videbis in Sulamite, — Eadem eft bujus loc? ratio, que precedentis,
Ibidem. Juncturz femorum tuorum, | 4/5 fcribunt feminum. X. $.
Sicut purpura regis vin&ta canalibus, Pro vincta , quod eft
participium à vincio , uon. fcribas jun&a. ἃ jungo; multóque minus
inta à tingo. γ΄. ὃ. Et odor oris tui ficut malorum. Non repetas vo»
cem odor ante malorum. Car. VIII. X. 2. Et ducam in domum matris
mez, Nen f[ubjicias , ut multi , & in cubiculum genitricis mez , quod
efl capitis 3. Y. 4. Y. 5. Que eft ifta , que afcendit de deferto. Cave
mates de. cum in. Y.7. Aqua multe non potuerunt exítinguere
charitatem. Alii , pro preterito potuerunt, fcribunt futurum poterunt.
Y. 12. Mille tui pacifici. Non eff opt genitioum pacifici , commutare
cum. vocativo pacifice , prefertim cim non fippetant. exemplaria.
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oypeteretereteetejeexotexeteto leo Note lr kool No t oM ρον OK ROI
CERO IN LIBROS SAPIENTUE ET ECCLESIASTICI ADMONITIO
PR.JEVIA. Urran aliam utriu(que Libri Sapientie, e Ecclefiaftici Lazizaz
Verfonem cdimus , prater illam, qua proffat , bodieque legitur in S.
Bibliis V. μέσας Editionis : bec enim non differt ab antiqua Verftone
Latina, feu, ut aiunt, Italicas imo una eademque eff eum ip(a, ft
monmulle excibiantur varietates , qua tamen duplicem mon arguunt
InterpretaHonem. « Qui namque in (Vulgata) libri comtinentur, (ut à
majoribus noffris quafi per manus « Pxaf, Vulg, traditum. nobis eff)
partim ex S. Hieronymi Translatione , vel emendatione , fufiepti funt
; « eon) partim vetenti ex antiqui[fma quadam Editione Latina ,
quam S. Hieron. Communem qi Vul- « gatam, S. Aug. ltalam, S.
Greg. Veterem Iranslationem appellat. » Idem agnofcit eruditus
"Auctor différtationum hifforic. in S. Script. differt. X. p. 83. « Certum
eff , inquit , Vulgatam « novam non ita pertinere ad. D. Hieronymum
, ut nibil omnino, quod ipfius Hieronymi mon « Jit , im ea habeatur.
Primo enim liber Pfalmorum sor eff ex Verftone Hieronymi , fed ex «
Ferfone LXX. e ut multi volunt, ex correctione Luciami. Secundó,
neque etiam LHiero- « »ymo tribui poffant libri Machabzorum ,
Sapientie , Ecclefiaftici , & Baruch , cuz Jibyos « zffos Flieromymus
mu[quam «verterit : cateros verà, paucis exceptis, que tum ex Veteri
Vul- « gata, fum ex Thbeodotionis ver[lome admiffa fimt, totos effe.
Hieronymi. dubitari nequit. » Idem fentit Martianaus noffer , cum ait
Prolegom. a. to. τ. op. S. Hieron. « Adverte di- « ligenter. Canonem.
Hebraice veritatis , uno Píalterio excepto, totum reperiri in Vulgata «
Latina, cum duobus in[uaper Tobiz οὐ; Judith voluminibus , de
Chbaldaico iz. Latinum ab « ipfo Hieromymo conver[s..... Praterea
babes im libro Pfalmorum pofferiorem emendationem « Hieronymi ,
quam ipfe edidit cum fignis afferi[corum qj obelorum..... Reliqui
omnes libri « ey ffrumenti Veteris vetenti [unt ex illa Antiqua
Vulgata, qua Communis , vel Italica « dicia perhibetur. Hi funt liber
Baruch , Sapientia , Ecclefiafticus , ac /ibri Machabxorüm « primus c
fecundus. » De duobus etiam. Sapientie εὖ" Ecclefiaftici Jibris iia
differit FHieromymus ip(e, pref. im libr. Salomonis : Fertur &
πανώρετος Jefü filii Sirach liber, & alius φαὺσεπίγραφος, qui
Sapientia. Salomonis infcribitur 5 quorum priorem Hebraicum reperi ,
non Ecclefrafficum , ut apud Latinos , fed Parabolas prenotatum 5
cui juncti erant. ; cc/eJfaffes , & Canticum Canticorum..... Secundus
apud Hebrzos nufquam eft; quia & ipfe ftylus Gracam eloquentiam
redolet , & nonnulli Scriptorum veterum hunc effe Judzi Philonis
affirmant. Er poff pauca addit : Si cui fané LXX. Interpretum magis
Editio placet, habet eam ᾿ à nobis olim emendatam ; neque enim fic
nova cudimus, ut vetera deftruamus. Cave 72menm ex poflerioribus
bis ducas , e exiffimes duos libros Sapientie c? Ecclefiaftici, uz eum
germanis Salomonis libris, emendatos fuiffe αὖ Hieronymo, vel
exatlos ad Graecum contextum : enim veró coztrarium ipfe affirmat
im pref. altera, quam prapofuit libris Salomonis fecundum Verfionem
LXX. ubi fic loquitur : 'Yres libros Salomonis , id eft, Proverbia,
Ecclefraflem , Canticum Canticorum, veteri LXX. Interpretum
auctoritati reddidi , vel antepofitis lineis füperflua quzque defignans,
vel ftellis titulo prxnotatis ea, quz minüs habebantur, interferens.
Subizde, paucis intevjeclis , addit : Porro in eo libro , qui à plerifque
Sapzezzia Salomonis infcribitur, & in Ecclefíaffico, quem effe Jefu filii
Sirach nullus ignorat, calamo temperavi : tantummodo canonicas
Scripturas emendare defiderans,, & ftudium meum certis magis ,
quàm dubiis , commendare. Uz4e »sazifeffe colligitur neque
Sapientiz , zeque Ecclefiaftici //hros tragslatos fuiffe olim , vel etiam
emendatos αὖ Hieronymo; proindeque utriufque libri hujus
Verfionem Latinam , qualiter nunc babetur in Γ κίgata noffra,
difparem baud effe , vel diflipéiam ab illa, que ufu communi recepta
erat iz Ecclefía aute Hieronymum. Εἰ fane , fi Verffonis bodierma
contentio fiat c comparatio cum Mf. Codicibus antiquis , vel cum
teflimoniis à SS. Patribus palfm citatis , vix pauca proferri poterunt
qua difcrepore videantur. le primà quidem de Mff. Codicibus res fatis
conflat : utrumque enim bunc librus exegimus ad quatuor Mff.
optima note , Corbeien[es duos , unum Sangermanen[ém , e alium
S. Theoderici ad Remos ; nec alias plerumque im ipfis varietates
deprebendimus prater. illas, que pa[fm occurrunt im antiquis
huju[cemodi libris. Neque tamen diverfas illas lec 
 399 tiones negligendas effe dmximuss quinimo [fingulas ac
prope omnes ascurate indiewoimus , febjecimufque im. Notis. At
plures alios id genus Mf. Codices indagare, vel excutere.
fapervacaneum cfe judicavimus , ac inutile. ; : INon, ita veró de
Patrum veterum libris exiflimavimus, quorum «vel upum
pratermittere nobis religio fuit. Itaque locorum ab ipfis citatorum,
comparatione adhibita cim duübus V'ulgste zoffre libris, miram inter.
ipfos coz fesfrom em fepe deprehendimus ; nec: alias plcrumque
dij/rmilitudines animadvertimus , prater communes , leves, ey parvi
momenti. Eofdem etiam libros contulimus cum ZAuguflipi S, yen ,
quod opus | tum in ipfis , tum in Aliis Scripture libris l'ulgatam
noffram pene ad verbu refert. INon diffimulabimus tamez enultó
pauciores ae leviores varietates in boc Anguffini opere à nobis fuiffe
repertas , quàm in Aliis Latinis , cun veterum Patrum fcriptis, tum
ipfru[met Auguflini. Unde fatis fusa adductus ut credere; (quod
etiam facile contingere potuit ) aliquam ifte libris , cj aliis id genus
«dhibitam fuiffe correcfionem , flatim. atque , vel faltem nom multis:
poft. annis, quam Fulgata nova adornata fuerat ab. Hieronymo ;
unde-mece[farió acciderit. ut raria lectiones plures vcmaz [erint cim
in Mff. Codicibus bujus antiqua. Verftonis, tum im veterum. Patrum
Jeriptis , quibus. uimirum caruerit Vulgata noflra. Hane autem
emendationem Auauflino pofleriorem effe mom. potuiffe , ipfru[rmet.
Speculum »azifeffe. offendit-::at- Speculo ipfo-mon multo {4112
antiquiorem, alii Auguflini libri , Speculo azterioresy fatis indicant. Ia.
his enim plures exflant varietates , que i2 Speculo. zoz dmveniuntur
unde id. affirmari woe crediderim , librorum Sapientie εὐ
:Ecclefiaftici, zeczom aliorum id. geuus , teffismonia ufurpata αὖ
Auguflino im. aliis ejus operibus, amguffe. magis c prefse Verfionem
Italicauz exprimere , quam illa que proferuntur. αὖ ipfo in. Speculi
libro :- 3d- etiam vel ex eo umo coxcludi poffe crediderim, quod
Speculi zeffisgmomia bis im locis nom tam. aréte Graecum γεάdagt,
quam cetera paj|um adhibita ab Auauflino im. aliis tractatibus. Ὁ Et
vero totos bofce libros , Sapientix c? Eccletiaftici j. pro zzore noffro,
cum Graco bodiere comparavimus , buju[que Graci contextás , c
lVerfmmis Latine noffra non parvam agnoviaus cognationem confen
(umque : fr vero interdum difcrepare inter [e videantur , iffa
diffmili1udines cy varietates nafci quoque potuerunt ex ipfo textu
Graco, qui diver[us im pluribus effe patzit , pro variis eju[acm Mff.
Codicibus , mecnom pro duplici ipfi [pet Editione , uma Koiii, ft
Communi , altera purgata gj» emendata, mon quidem ab Origene ,
qui buju[modi librss uon inuenit im Canone Hebr. fed ab alio
quopiam ipfms exemplo, quod mom ompi verifim:siudine caret.
IMajor tamen. libri Sapientiz viecigitas eum Graco bodierzo uobis vifa
eji, quam Ecclefiattici. Hujus Aiferepantie cau[am indicare videtur
AAuciar ipfe Prologi im buzz lib. citm. dicit : Hortor itaque venire vos
cum benevolentia, & attentiori fludio le&ionem facere, & veniam
habere in illis, in quibus videmur , fequentes imaginem Sapientiz ,
deficere in verborum compofiüione. Nam deficiunt verba Hebraica ,
quando fuerint translata ad alteram linguam. Ex quibus, u£ ex aliis
que adduztur infra, manifeffe colligitur texium Ecclefiaftici
prizgenzium non Grzacum fuiffe. fed Hebraicum : id. etiam teflatur.
Hieron. pref. faprad. in libros Salomonis , ubi ait. Ecclefiaftici librum
reperiffe fe Hebraicum 5 alterum. "vero, qui Sapientia Salomonis
infcribitur, apud Hebrxos nufquam effe, quia ὅς ipfe ftylus Graecam
eloquentiam redolet. Perro f/ Ecclefraffiei liber. primitus Hebrateus
ftit , mom Graecus , quid obffat quominus Latiza illa, quam habemus
, eju[dem libri Verfto proxim manaverit ex fonte Hebraico , nom
veróex translatione Graeca, que nunc exflat ; quemadmodum
Sapientia libri interpretatio Latiza ἃ fonte Graco derivata eff , quod
nemini dubium εἰ. Cum autem Hebraicus textus à Graco ρὲ aultum.
differat , nom valde izum [i Verfomum duarum Latizarum , ex diver[o
fogte ortarum , una magis conveniat cum Graco , altera plus differat.
Verum bac im ve tantummodo conjetturá ducor 5 e quamuis id quod
fepicor de libro Ecclefraffiei , mom omnino temere credi poffe putem
5 hoc tamem mom aujen tam valde affirmare , ut ommis de eo
tollatur. dubitatio 5 maxime cumesbugus. libri Translatio Graca prima
antiquitatis [it , nec etiam ipfius Verfro Latiza parum [it
com[emtanea eum textu Graco etiam bodierzo.
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tin» dio dio Tp oia do di» d» Qe Qe (pq eqq eo qo eqq ecc eqq
CAPITULA VETERA IE UIDRI SUALELL ET TNT TL 7E Ex Mf. cod.
Corb. num. r. [. D diligenda juflitia. cap. x. y. 1. IL Sapientia 1n
malivolam animam non introibit. c. 1. Y. 4. UII. Cuflodiendum à
murmuratione , οὐ» detratlione. C. 1, Y. Ir. IV. De «cogitationibus
impiorum. c. 2. wv. x. V. De confilio Judaeorum adversis Chriflum. c.
2. Ὑ. E. VI. De fandis martyribus. c. 3. v. 1. VII. Quid impii fecundüm
que gelferunt recipient. C. 3. Y. IO. VIH. De felicitate virginum : filii
adulterorum in confummatione..... C. 3. Y Y. 13. 16, X. De Ju[lorum
adversis perfecutores fuos futura conflantia. c. $. Y. x. XI. /tem de
Martyribus quód in perpetuum vivent. δύο Y. 16. XII. De Judicibus
terre. c. 6. v. τ. XIII. Concupifcendos fermones fapientia. c. 6. w. 2.
XIV. Per incorruptionem proxinari ad Dominum. C. 6. v. 20. XV. De
proprio nativitatis ortu. Salomonis. c. 7. Y. τ. XVI. Salomonem
accepiffe fpiritum. fapientia. c. 7. 3.17. XVII. Sapientiam ubique
attingere. c. 7. v. 24. XVIII. Sapientia attingit ἃ fine ufque ad finem
fortiter , e difponit omnia fuaviter. c. 8. y. 1. XIX. Quid continens effe
nemo poffit , nifi Deus det. c. 8. Y. 21: XX. Salomon orat accipere.
fapientiam. c. 9. y. x. XXI. Per fapientiam [anatos amnes, qui
placuevunt Dco. C. 9. Y. 18. XXII. Per fapientiam eductum. populum
Ifrael de JEgypto. c. το. y. 15. XXII. De fandis martyribus. c. vx. y.
14. XXIV. Quid delimquenti populo ultrices beflia inmiffs funt. c. xx.
y. 16. XXV. Quid ante Deum fint omnia tanquam gutta roris
antelucant. c. yx, v. 25. XXVI. Quod Spiritus Sancius [uavis [it in
omnibus. €, 12. Y, I. XXVII Patientiam Dei dare locum penitentie
peccatoribus. c. x2. y. 10. XXVIH. Bonitatem Dei cogitandam , c»
fperandam imifericordiam ejus. c. x2. y. 2a. XXIX. De idolatriis. c. 15.
v. x. XXX. De quarentibus Deum in. operibus. ejus. c. l3. Y. 7. XXXI.
Deridendum idolatria errorem. c. x 3. *. το. XXXII. Quod in
mifericordia Deus difponit omμά. C. Y$. Y. X. XXXIH. De
adinventionibus idolorum , c» de cultoribus eorum. c. 14. v. τ. XXXIV.
Idolatrie causa nefanda omnia introdudla, C. I4. YY. I2. 27. XXXV.
Quid mifericordia Dei. f[anaverit juftos. C. 15. Y. 2. XXXVI. Quod
mortis & vita folus Dominus babeat poteflatem. c. 16. y. 15. XXXVII.
Subfannat imventores idolatris, c, ας. Y. 4. XXXVII. Dedife Dominum
efcam deledamenti populo timenti fe. c. τό. y. 20. XXXIX. Quid
creatura Deo fattori fuo deferviat. C. 16. Y. 24. XL. Quid fermo
Domini pafcat credentes in fe. c. τό; ἡ. :ὅ. ΧΗ, ZZagna effe Dei
judicia , c inenarrabilia; e, I7. Y. I. XLII. Prefumptio [zva turbat
confcientiam. c. x 7. Y. IO. XLI. Quid [andis inter tenebras ZEgypti
lux non defuit. c. 18. v. 1. XLIV. De nocte qua percufft Deus
primogenita ZE“7Ρ11. c. 18. y. 5. XLV. Quid Moyfes uon virtute
corporis , fed fide , c operatione eduxit populum de /Egypto. c. 18.
Yy.22, XLVI. Qualiter edudi funt de. ZEgypto filii Ifrael, 4c x9: y. «1:
XLVII. Qualiter , tran[atto mare , populus defideraverit carnes , C
acceperit coturnices. c. το. Y. 11. XLVIIL Quod magmficaverit.
Dominus populum fuum , quem eduxit de terra Egypti. c. 19. y. 20.
 3. Reg. 3. 9. lai, 56. 1. 2. Par. 15.2. C [trim m — — τ tti
ERN πη τα ] Sm mmm ἢ p » ἤ t3 Tm ;96 τ !) [x x hl d a E-MIOB Lp
SAPIENTIJZA.
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DAMODAVBRDAWODHEOXOS ΚΡ ΟΡ ΕΣ CAPUT PRIMUM. VEzRsIO
ANTIQUA, οὔ ET VULGATA NOSTRA. Irrcrmm juftitiam , qui judicatis
terram. Sentite de Domino in bonitate, [1 & in fimplicitate cordis ἘΞ
quzrite illum : | 2. quoniam invenitur ab his, qui non tentant illum :
apparet autem eis, qui fidem habent in illum : 3. perverfz enim
cogitationes feparant à Ew grauia ΠΡῚΝ E-AU ΣΙ nmwn 51: ἘΞΞΞ T
TTE 3 Deo : probata autem virtus corripit infipientes: 4. quoniam in
malevolam animam non introibit fapientia, nec habitabit in corpore
Íubdito peccatis. s. Spiritus enim fanàus difciplinz effugiet fictum , &
auferet fe à cogitationibus , quz funt fine intelletu , & corripietur à
füperveniente iniquitate. 6. Benignus eft enim fpiritus fapientie , ὅς
σίας Norz. * Mf. Corb. n. 2. Incipit Sapientia Salomonis. Gr. Scqi
Σαλωμών. Et veróà SS. Patribus vocitatur hic liber , Sapientia
Salomonis, maximé à Cypriano l. 2. Teftim. p- 290. Ap. Tertul. l.
cont. Valent. p. 441. b. Sephza. Salomonis. Ap. Lactant. l. 4. Inftit.
Salomon zn libro Sapientia. Y. 1. Sentite.... €9 22. femplzcitate cordis
, &c. Hieron, in lfai. $$. & $6. to. 3. 404. c. 413. d. legit : Sapite de
Dem. &c. ut fup. Gr. Geov("are περὶ τῇ. ὅς, Tertul. 1. de praxfcr. c. 7.
p. 331. c. hucalludens , ait Salomonem tradidile, Dominum in
fmplicitate cordis effe quavendum : ita quoque l. cont. Valent. p.
441. b. cul fuceinit Cypr. l. 3. Teítim, p. 319. b. Gildas vero. Sap.
caftig. in Ecclef. ord. p. 714. h. habet : Serozte Domino in bonitate ,
Ὁ zn fimplicitate cordis qterzte eum. Fulg. |. de Incarn. p. 411.
Sentite de Domino in bonit. &c.ut fup. Auct. l. de promiff. ap. Profp.
p. 184. d. Vulgate favet. Y.2. Hieron. in lai, $5. col. 404. c. Quia
inveniHy... Q9 apparet bis, qui nom funt ei increduli. Gaud. Brix. fer.
17. p. 969. b..... apparet veró bis, qui fidem babent in ipfum. Grxc.
ἐμφανίζεῖαι δὲ «d; μὴ ἀπισξσιν εἰυτῶ. Y. 3. Sic habet Fulg. 1, cont.
fer. Faftid. c. 4. p. 343. & l|. 2. ad Trafim. p. 100. Ita quoque Aut, l.
de χα]. manf. ap. Ambr. col. r5. f. ab his : Probata autem , &c. Gildas
Sap. caítig. in Eccl. ord. p. 715. a. legit : perverfe enim cognitioues
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