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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Vossius also added Gregory of Nyssa's De vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi. [308] Ps.-Gregorius Thaumaturgus, De fide capitula duodecim, Disputatio de anima ad Tatianum, Homilia I in annuntiationem Virginis Mariae, Homilia II in annuntiationem Virginis Mariae, Fides secundum partem and Homilia I in sancta theophania [308]
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.
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]