Gregory the Great

Moralia in Job

790 - 810

Contents: Letter of Bernhard Bischoff to M. Gatch, 13.x.77, "Warscheinlich ist das Stueck ein Membrum disiectum zu CLA viii.1144 (und zu CLA ii.155)." [handwritten note by Gould]. Contains Greg. Mor. In Job lib 35, c 11/12.

Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Script: Insular

Condition: Black stains, badly discolored on verso.

Notes: Copied in an Anglo-Saxon center in Germany, possibly Hersfeld (see CLA II:155 & VIII:1144).

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75. E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini AntiquioresII 2nd ed:155, & VIII:1144 and Addenda p. 350.

B. Bischoff, Mittelalterliche Studien(Stuttgart 1966-81) 3:27 for note on Hersfeld mss in insular script.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 008

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta008_45

Parchment - 112 x 103 mm - Single column with 13 lines visible; grid dimension ? X 92; bounding lines visible, 5mm on r and l.

Latin

manuscript fragment

Germany?, Hersfeld?