Regula pastoralis

Description

Title: Regula pastoralis
Creator: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Published / Created: [between 1150 and 1200]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Gregorius Magnus (Gregory the Great, pope 590-604), Regula pastoralis
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by various scribes writing Praegothica, difficult to distinguish from each other because of the uneven level of execution of their hands.
Headings in red, missing from f. 12v onwards. 1-3-line plain initials in red of various shades. On f. 1v very large (c. 25 lines) decorated Romanesque initial "P" in red.
Holes and defective corners, many repaired; the lower margins of ff. 63 and 91-92 are repaired by means of a strip of parchment; the lower margin of f. 93 is cut off. The manuscript is heavily trimmed at the top. First and last pages very soiled.
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. De luxe, gold-tooled green morocco over cardboard; each cover framed by rich gold-tooling imitating the decorated initial on f. 1v; turn-ins gold-tooled. Gold-tooled spine with repeated motif in the same style and title: "GREGORII / PASTORALIS / M.S.". Gilt edges.
Provenance: Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 14872). Purchased from H.P. Kraus, New York, with the income of the Starling W. Childs Fund.
Extent: ff. iii + 93 + ii : 205 x 140 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 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.
Subject (Topic): Fathers of the church
Letters, Papal
Manuscripts, Medieval
Theology
History
Subjects: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Fathers of the church
Letters, Papal
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Theology > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
Germany > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Gregory the Great, Regula Pastoralis. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.