London. British Library, Royal MS 6 C VI

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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  • British Library, Royal MS 6 C VI
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  • Latin
Title
  • The Book of Job (24-42); Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on Moralia in Job
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Lanfranc (1010-1089)
    Original form
    • Lanfranc of Canterbury, c 1010-1089, Archbishop of Canterbury
    Other form
    • Lanfrancus
    • LANFRANCUS, archiep. Cantuariensis
    • LANFRANCUS, archiep. CANTUARIENSIS
    • Lanfrancus, Cantuariensis archiep.
    • Author: Lanfrancus, Cantuariensis
    • Lanfranc
    • Lanfranc OSB
    • Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1005?-1089
    • Lanfranco, O.S.B., 1010-1089 > , coment.
    • Lanfrancus Cantuariensis - ca. 1005 - 1089 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Grégoire I (pape, 0540?-0604)
    Original form
    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    Other form
    • GRÉGOIRE LE GRAND
    • Grégoire le Grand
    • GREGORIUS I papa (S.)
    • GRÉGOIRE LE GRAND (S.)
    • Gregorius I (pape ; 0540?-0604)
    • Gregorius Magnus
    • Grégoire I (pape ; 0540?-0604)
    • Gregorius I
    • GREGORIUS MAGNUS I (s.), papa
    • GREGORIUS Magnus I (s.), papa
    • S. Gregorius Magnus
    • S. Gregorius
    • Gregoire Le Grand, S.
    • Gregorius
    • Saint Gregoire
    • Sancti Gregorii papae
    • GREGORIUS MAGNUS
    • Grégoire I (pape, 0540?-0604)
    • Gregorius Magnus (s.)
    • Gregorii
    • Saint Grégoire le Grand
    • GREGORIUS I MAGNUS (s.), papa
    • Beati Gregorii papae
    • Gregorio papa
    • Gregorii Papae
    • Sancto Gregorio
    • S. Gregorii Magni
    • Sancti Gregorii
    • Grégoire I (0540?-0604 ; pape)
    • Sanctus Gregorius Magnus
    • GREGORIUS I Magnus (s.), papa
    • Gregorii [Magni]
    • Gregorius (saint ; 06.. ?-07.. ? ; évêque d'Agrigente)
    • Saint Grégoire
    • Grégoire le Grand (Saint), pape
    • Grégoire I, pape, 0540?-0604
    • Grégoire le Grand,‏ ‎saint‏, ‎0540?-0604
    • Gregorius Magnus,‏ ‎sant,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Gregorius Magnus,‏ ‎saint,‏ ‎0540?-0604
    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Gregorius‏ ‎Magnus, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604‏
    • Gregorius de Grote (paus)
    • Gregorius (heilige)
    • Gregorius I, papa
    • Gregorius Magnus,‏ ‎santo,‏ ‎ca. 540-0604
    • Gregori I, papa, 540-604
    • Gregorio I, Papa
    • Gregorius I (paus)
    • Gregorius Papa, I. 540-604
    • Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604
    • Author: Gregorius I, Papa
    • Gregory the Great
    • Gregorius I, Pont. Max.
    • Gregory, I, Pope, approximately 540-604
    • Gregory
    • Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
    • Gregory I, Pope
    • Pope Gregory the Great
    • Gregorius I, Magnus, paus, 540?-604
    • Grégoire (pape)
    • Gregorius, I.<Papa>
    • Gregor I., Papst, 542-604
    • Gregor, I.<Papst>
    • Gregorius papa
    • S. Grégoire
    • Grégoire le Grand (saint), pape
    • S. Grégoire le Grand
    • Gregor <I., Papst> (542-604)
    • Gregory the Great, 540-604
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Gregory I, Pope (approximately 540-604)
    • Grégoire le Grand, pape, saint (540 - 604) > Pape
    • Grégoire le Grand, pape, saint (540 - 604)
    • Grégoire le Grand, pape, saint (540 - 604) > Père de l'Eglise
    • Gregorius (ca. 540-604)
    • Gregorio I, Papa, Santo, 540-604
    • Gregor
    • S. Gregorii
    • Gregor <I., Papst>
    • Gregorius Magnus (Nachtrag: Catalogus operum Gregorii Magni monasterio in maiore Frankenthal anno 1486 pertinentium)
    • Gregório Magno, Santo, 540-604
    • Gregório Magno, Santo, 540-604 > , co-autor
    • Igreja Católica, Papa 590-604 (Gregório I)
    • Gregorius Papa I - ca. 540 - 604 - auteur
    • Gregorius Papa I - ca. 540 - 604 - oorspronkelijke auteur
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Description
  • This manuscript was originally the second volume of a two-volume set containing the book of Job and Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. The first volume of this set was probably Royal MS 13 C IV, which includes the Moralia in Job, books 1-16 but which was written by a different hand. A part of a later copy of the book of Job (ff. 1r-5v), written by an early 13th-century hand, has been associated with the original volume at an early period, as the 14th-century ownership inscription on f. 1r testifies (see Provenance). Lanfranc's (b. c. 1010, d. 1089) notes have been added at the end in the second half of the 12th century (f. 259r). Contents:ff. 1r-5v: The book of Job (24:20-42:16), imperfect beginning: 'Non sit in recordatione sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum', added in the 13th century. ff. 6r-258v: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35), beginning : 'Quotiens in Sancti viri historia per novum volumen enodare mysterium typice expositionis aggredimur'. Book 17 (ff. 6r-15r); Book 18 (ff. 15r-33v); Book 19 (ff. 33v-45v); Book 20 (ff. 45v-61r); Book 21 (ff. 61r-68v); Book 22 (ff. 68v-79v); Book 23 (ff. 79v-91r); Book 24 (ff. 91r-101v); Book 25 (ff. 101v-111r); Book 26 (ff. 111r-128r); Book 27 (ff. 128r-142v); Book 28 (ff. 142v-152v); Book 29 (ff. 152v-167v); Book 30 (ff. 167v-185r); Book 31 (ff. 185r-206r); Book 32 (ff. 206r-218v); Book 33 (ff. 218v-236r); Book 34 (ff. 236r-247r); Book 35 (ff. 247r-258v), ending : 'accipit pro me lacrimas reddat. Deo et domino nostro, Iesu Christo, cui cum patre et Spiritu Sancto honor et imperium per aeterna secula seculorum, amen. Moralia Gregorii Papae Urbis Rome, in librum Iob per contemplationem sumpta, expliciunt'. f. 259r: Lanfranc's notes on the Moralia in Job, beginning : 'Horionas, hyadas, rinocerota', ending: 'ne imperitorum inscitia prefatas dictiones, hoc in opera inconsulte temerare presumat'.Decoration: The decoration of the main part (ff. 6-258) is related to the Rochester style and some scenes are 'in the Norman rather than in the Anglo-Saxon tradition', according to Kauffman, Romanesque manuscripts (1975). Three large historiated initials in colours and silver, at the beginning of each part: Job on the dunghill (f. 6r); a knight piercing a dragon (f. 79v); a nimbed eagle (f. 142v).Twelve smaller historiated, zoomorphic, or foliate initials in colours, at the beginning of books (ff. 15r, 33r, 45v, 68v, 91r, 128r, 152v, 167v, 206r, 218v, 236r, 247r), including: the Lamb of God (f. 15r); St Michael and the dragon (f. 33v); a bust of Christ (f. 128r); and Samson and the lion (f. 152v). Initials in red or blue, some with penwork decoration (e.g., ff. 101v, 185r).
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