Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties, Ms. 1477

Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job (fragment)

Manuscript description

Manuscript ID

mmfc-15504

Title

Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job (fragment)

Collection

Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties

Shelfmark

Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties, Ms. 1477

Manuscript Category

religion

Document type

homiliary

Topic

church fathers

Provenance

Owner
Jozef-Maria De Smet
Date
20th century

Acquisition

The collection of Jozef-Maria De Smet passed to KU Leuven Bijzondere Collecties after his death in 1996.

References

Online catalogue record

KU Leuven Libraries Catalogue

Digital reproduction

Teneo
Fragmentarium (digital reproduction)

IIIF Manifest

https://lib.is/IE2237819/manifest
https://fragmentarium.ms/metadata/iiif/F-iq0n/manifest.json

Other online data sources

Fragmentarium

Fragment container

UNIT ID

mmfc-15505

Leaf count

1 bifolium (f. 1: right upper corner incomplete and hole in outer margin)

Remaining fragment

UNIT ID

mmfc-15503

Page range

fol. [1]-[2]

Form

Codex

Integrity

Fragment: 1 bifolium

Language

Latin (main)

Notes

Readers' annotations
Fol. [1]r contains a 19th-century annotation in blue pen ("XIIe siècle", referring to the century the fragment was possibly made). Fol. [2]v contains the annotation “1563”, which possibly refers to a year for which the fragment was used as a document binder.

Origin

Date
11th century (Godfried Croenen)
Evidence
Script

Support

Material

Parchment

Number of leaves

2

Page dimensions

h: 255 mm x w: 160 mm

Layout

Section 1
fol. [1]-[2] (fol. [2]r)
Columns
1
Lines
27; lines ruled: 27 (written above top line)
Layout formula
| T |
Ruling
Full ruling, Blind-point ruling
Prickings
prickings visible in outer margin
Text dimensions
h: 190 mm x w: 110 mm

Writing

Script

Carolina

Number of hands

1

Decoration

Type

no initials visible, versals, rubrics red, rubrics, ornamental initials, pen-flourished initials

Description

Blue plain pen-flourished initial with red penwork (fol. [2]r). Red rubrication.

1. Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job, Part 1, Book 4, c. 21, 27-29

UNIT ID

mmfc-15501

Page range

fol. [1]r-[2]v (defective)

Title

Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job, Part 1, Book 4, c. 21, 27-29

Moralia in Iob

Contributors

Gregorius I papa (author)

Language

Latin (main)

Incipit

ut quod male agitur (fol. [1]r)

Explicit

Quare non in vulva motuus sum, egressus ex utero non statim perii? Cur exceptus genibus? Cur lactatus […] (fol. [1]v)

Incipit

infirmitate posset tolerari, non abuit (fol. [2]r)

Explicit

ab hac angustia nostre tribulationis invenimus (fol. [2]v)
Manuscript description
  1. Fragment container
    1. Remaining fragment
      1. 1. Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job, Part 1, Book 4, c. 21, 27-29