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The Moralia in Job of 945 is an illuminated manuscript of 502 bound folios, containing the text of the Commentary on Job by Gregory the Great. A colophon on the verso of its folio 500 shows its copying and illumination was completed on 11 April 945 by one Florentius in the monastery of Valeránica in what is now the town of Tordómar in Spain.
An illuminated initial from Gregory's Commentary on Job, Abbey of Saint-Pierre at Préaux, Normandy. Moralia in Job ("Morals in Job"), also called Moralia, sive Expositio in Job ("Morals, or Narration about Job") or Magna Moralia ("Great Morals"), is a commentary on the Book of Job by Gregory the Great, written between 578 and 595.
The Cîteaux Moralia in Job is an illuminated copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job made at the reform monastery of Cîteaux in Burgundy around 1111. Housed at the municipal library in Dijon (Bibliothèque municipale), it is one of the most familiar but least understood illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
Exerpta in Job by Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373) a commentary by Didymus the Blind (d. 398) a commentary by Hesychius of Jerusalem (5th century) a commentary by Julian the Arian (5th century) a fragmentary commentary by Elishaʿ bar Quzbaye (5th/6th century) Moralia in Job (578–595) by Gregory the Great; a commentary by Moses ibn Gikatilla ...
Français : Frontispice avec une lettrine historiée R débutant une lettre de Grégoire à Léandre de Séville, Morales sur Job, ms 168:4v. 中文： 卷首插画 English: Frontispiece and historiated initial R beginning a letter from Gregory to Leander of Seville , Moralia in Job , ms 168:4v.
The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great, an important adjunct to Plutarch's Life of the great general; On the Worship of Isis and Osiris, a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites; [2] and On the Malice of Herodotus (which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise), [3] in which Plutarch criticizes ...
British Library, Add MS 31031 is an 8th-century illuminated copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job, books I–V. The codex is missing the last folio and ends in the words "et singuli tota". The manuscript is written in Merovingian script on vellum. It has 145 folios. The manuscript has colored initials and titles.
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]