Homiliae xl in evangelia (fragment).

Description

Title: Homiliae xl in evangelia (fragment).
Creator: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Published / Created: [between 1100 and 1150].
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Homiliae xl in evangelia
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in late Caroline minuscule.
Decoration: At the beginning of Homily 4 (fol. 2r) there is a 3-line initial "C" sketched, but not completed, in brown ink with foliate decoration; it may be a later addition; 1-line initials are brown uncials; the rubrics for Homily 4 and its lesson are written in red minuscule mixed with uncial forms, with red line-filler; there are no initials or rubrics for the beginning of each lesson; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; accents were added by a later hand; on fol. 2v there are three interlinear Latin glosses in a fifteenth-century hand; other fifteenth-century hands have added marginal notations and figures of heads on fols. 7v-8r.
Provenance: Gift of the Yale University Classical Club; purchased from Kraus in 1948.
Extent: ff. 1-8 : 266 x 192 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
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.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Homiliaries
Subjects: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Homiliaries
France > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Gregory the Great, Homiliae xl in evangelia (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.