Part 1: ff. 2r-181v

Description: - Parchment - 332 x 222 mm - 2 columns of 59 lines; ruled.

Country: England

Assigned Date: s. XIII1

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Script: Gothic.

Other Decoration: Large blue initials with red pen-flourishing at the beginning of each book; running book titles in blue roman numerals with red pen-flourishing; some initials within text touched with red.

Notes: Lines numbered between the columns by fives in arabic numerals; marginal annotations in at least two hands, the less frequent of which is probably English, and the more frequent certainly English in an anglicana script; some "cor" marks.




Text 1: ff. 2r-180v; f. 181r-v blank

Author: Gregory I

Title: Moralia in Job

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Contains all 35 books of the Moralia reader notes in lead, f. 181r; f. 181v blank. 

Image 1: f. 2 Flourished initial; running headline.

Image 2: f. 68v Flourished initial; line numbers by fives between columns.

Image 3: f. 73v Flourished initial; finding devices in upper and lower margins.

Image 4: f. 115 Finding devices in upper and lower margins; face bracket.

Image 5: f. 126 Decorative marginal note in English hand on colors of veil.

Image 6: f. 126v Flourished initial.

Image 7: f. 127 Repair in parchment, column b, avoided by scribe.

Image 8: f. 127v Repair in parchment, column a, avoided by scribe.

Image 9: f. 169 Manicule in red ink.

Image 10: f. 180v Verses at end of the 35 books of Gregory's Moralia

Image 11: f. 181 Reader notes in lead in an English hand.


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Part 2: ff. 1r-v, 182r-218v

Description: - Parchment - 332 x 222 mm - 2 columns of 55 lines ruled in ink.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Script: Gothic.

Other Decoration: Large initials in alternating red and blue with penflourishing respectively in blue or pale purple for the beginning of each section of the index; 1-line initials at beginning of each entry in alternating red and blue.

Notes: Marginal notes in an English hand, present in the text of the Moralia are not found in the Italian section of the book (prefatory materials; index).




Text 1: f. 1r-v

Other Associate: Gregory I; Isidore of Seville

Title: Vision of Taius bishop of Zaragoza; Preface of Isidore; Four methods of Interpretation

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Three texts relating to the Moralia a vision that rediscovered a copy at St. Peter's in Rome; Isidore's preface to the text; the four methods of interpretation: historical, allegorical, tropological, anagogical. 

Image 12: Front pastedown Inventory numbers of this manuscript in Italian collections, s. XIX, "34" and "308."

Image 13: f. i Water damaged early modern note in upper margin; modern text identification.

Image 14: f. i verso Water damaged early modern notes in upper margin; ownership note beginning "Iste liber est . . . "; upside down in lower margin, note about Job.

Image 15: f. ii verso Price of book in florins, s. XV (?).

Image 16: f. 1 Vision of Taius; beginning of preface attributed to Isidore.

Image 17: f. 1v End of preface by Isidore in praise of Gregory; text on methods of interpretation.

Image 18: Binding Front cover with painted coat of arms, severely worn.




Text 2: ff. 182r-217r; ff. 217v-218v blank

Other Associate: Gregory I

Title: Alphabetical subject index to the Moralia

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Begins: Abel (and subentries), Abyssus (and subentries), Abortium, Abraam. 

Image 19: f. 182r Flourished initial; alphabetical subject index with reference to book and chapter number, and location letters.

Image 20: f. 208v Alternating initials, red and blue, with purple or red flourishing.

Image 21: f. 217r Colophon citing value of index.