ID 869402
Лот 9 | Gregory the Great (590-604)
Оценочная стоимость
£ 1 500 – 2 500
A fragment from Moralia in Iob, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy, 10th century].
An early fragment from one of the most popular patristic texts of the Carolingian period.
c.162 x 370mm. A fragment of a bifolium, remains of 18 visible lines in 2 columns, the script a Caroline minuscule hand, leaning to the right, bowls with a slightly flattened aspect, 'rs' and 'ri' ligatures, and some extended finials; the text comprises part of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob, Book 35.17-19 ('[ as]censu generatur […]’ to ‘et alia claritas lunae, et alia claritas stellarum [...]’), ornamental initials (significant staining obscuring large sections of texts, text on the outer face is very faded, cropped on all sides).
Provenance:
(1) Served as a wrapper for a register inscribed ‘1557 usq[ue] 1561’.
(2) Annibale Ferriccioli: 18th-century inscription ‘Ferriccioli Annibbale’ and initials ‘A.F.’.
(3) Bernard Rosenthal, his 'I/154'.
(4) Bernard Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, V, cat. 1147 (1991), no 78.
(5) Colker MS 439; acquired in 1991 from Quaritch.
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| Место происхождения: | Италия |
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| Место происхождения: | Италия |
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