Script: Written in an elegant late caroline minuscule script.

One large initial, f. 1r, 8-line, in red ink, filled with stylized scrolls issuing from the mouth of a fantastic bird. 5-line incipit, f. 1r, in rows of majuscules: red, red, black, green, red. Numerous other initials, 7- to 4-line, in blue, red or green, some with stylized leaf terminals and interior arabesque designs on parchment ground. Small initials, 1-line, alternate blue, red, and green for tables of contents. Headings (often crowded into inadequate space left by scribe) and running headlines in red.

Upper corner of f. 75 torn affecting text; many leaves neatly repaired.

Binding: 1911, Broadway, Worcestershire, England, by Katherine Adams (fl. 1901-45). Green goatskin with gold-tooling on the turn-ins and gold-tooled title on spine: "Gregorii/ Magni/ Homiliae/ XL de/ Diuersis/ Evangelii/ Lectionibus" and "MS. Saec. XII".

In Latin.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 192.

Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in Evangelia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Bible > Commentaries.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.

Sermons > Early works to 1800.