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Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 42

Marina Bernasconi Reusser, 2025 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob
Shelfmarks X 42
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 8th century
Script, Hands

An Alemannic minuscule written in a single hand.
General Remarks

Sister leaves:

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 347

Original Condition

Page Height at least 190 mm
Page Width at least 124 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 23
Line Height at least 8 mm
Ruling Not visible.

Current Condition

Extent Two partial leaves, trimmed for use as a cover for the host volume.
Dimensions front cover: 190 x 119 mm; back cover: 188 x 124 mm

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Gregory the Great
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Moralia in Iob
    • Content Description

      Two partial leaves from Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob:

      front cover: Book 22, Chapter 20: /amoris levamus, ut ab eo ... - ... Auge nobis fidem, ut que / (PL 75.0243A - 0243C)

      back cover: Book 5, Chapter 15-16:  fruct]um, suavitas odorum ... - ... veritas dicit: qui biberit ex aqua, qua, ego dabo ei, non sitiet in eternum / (PL 75.0739D - 0740B)
    • kbt_frg_x042_1

History

Remarks

The host volume belonged to the nearby Kartause Ittingen outside of Frauenfeld, Switzerland.

Host Volume

Title Antoninus Florentinus; Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio Pseudo-Johannes Chrysostomus, Sermo de poenitentia
Date of Origin/Publication [ca. 1484]
Place of Origin/Publication [Strassburg, Heinrich Knoblochtzer]
Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 42
Remarks

Parchment on cardboard.

Bibliography

  • On the host volume: Luginbühl Marianne, Bothien Heinz, Meisterwerke des frühen Buchdrucks: Die Inkunabel-Schätze der Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau aus den Klöstern von Ittingen, Fischingen und Kreuzlingen, Frauenfeld-Stuttgart-Wien, 2011, p. 21 nr. 28.
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