Homeliae in Hiezechielem prophetam

Description

Title: Homeliae in Hiezechielem prophetam
Creator: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Published / Created: [ca. 1150]
Publication Place: Hautecombe (?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (poor quality: thick, holes, ends, repairs) of Gregory the Great, Homeliae in Hiezechielem prophetam. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by multiple scribes in spiky early gothic bookhand.
Spaces left unfilled, f. 1r, for initials and headings at beginning of prologue and text. Decorative monochrome initials and headings, which extend the width of columns, of modest quality, in red (many oxidized). Minor initials, 5- to 2-line, some with simple penwork designs, headings, initial strokes in red.
Many leaves damaged along outer edges, now repaired, but with loss of text; stained throughout.
Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in mottled brown calf with bright pink paper sides. Two gold-tooled, brick red labels on spine: "Greg. Pape. in Ezechiel." and "Saecul. XIII". Red edges. Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 158, 197, also from the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe.
Provenance: Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. ii + 105 + ii : 300 x 220 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Commentaries
Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic): Fathers of the church
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Cistercians
Bible > Commentaries
Bible. O.T. Ezekiel
Fathers of the church
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Gregory the Great, Homeliae in Hiezechielem Prophetam. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.