Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Gregorius I Magnus
The name "Magna Moralia" cannot be traced further back in time than the reign of Marcus Aurelius.Henry Jackson suggested that the work acquired its name from the fact that the two rolls into which it is divided would have loomed large on the shelf in comparison to the eight rolls of the Eudemian Ethics, even though the latter are twice as long. [1]
Edited by Gerardus Vossius in the Thaumaturge's Opera omnia under the title Sancti Gregorii episcopi Neocaesariensis, cognomento Thaumaturgi, opera omnia. [307] Among other works this edition included for the first time the In Origenem oratio panegyrica. [307] Vossius also added Gregory of Nyssa's De vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi. [308]