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Moralia in Job

Title
Moralia in Job.
Created
Merseburg, Germany, [ca. 1000]
Physical Description
ff. ii (paper) + 259 + ii (paper) : parchment ; 340 x 255 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: The main section is copied by various similar hands, in Carolingian script: hand (A) copied ff. 3v and 5r-65v; hand (B) ff. 66r-254v and 256r-259v; hand (C) f. 255r-v. The 15th century replacements for missing parts are copied in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, and the additional texts are copied by various 13th-14th century hands, writing in Gothica Textualis Libraria in various sizes, except art. 2, which is in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior.
Decoration: Limited and uneven, ceasing after f. 122r. A few simple initials. A small pen drawing of a young man sitting on a bench, with undecipherable accompanying text, and a dry-point sketch of a standing male figure.
Binding: 20th century brown morocco de luxe over cardboard, by Marguerite Duprez-Lahey (1880-1958); both covers blind-tooled with frames and disk motif, also apparent on the blind-tooled turn-ins; and the spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions.
In Latin.
Provenance
Donated by Werner, bishop of Merseburg (1063-1093), to the abbey of St. Peter's in Merseburg. Ex libris Estelle Doheny (1875-1958). Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment of books I-IX of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, also containing two Masses: (1) feast of Charlemagne (Jan 28) and (2) feast of St Catherine (Nov 25); various prayers; scriptural excerpts; and a list of donations to the abbey of Mersburg.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 09, 2011
References
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 11th century.
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