Homiliary – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1101 – 1200 CE · ItalyF-t273
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704 (18)
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Script Type
Liturgica
Persons
Gregory I, Pope ca. 540-604
(Author)
Maximus, Taurinensis
(Author)
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Summary
Written in a large Italian carolingian minuscule hand in black ink with red rubrics in two columns, 46 lines per column. The columns are 11-12 cm. wide, written area 43 x 26 cm.
There are two 6-line initial letters with white-vine decoration in blue, red and yellow.
Content includes end of Maximus of Turin, Homilia XC De poenitentia et jejuniis Ninivitarum I (recto; PG 57. 462A-B) -- an unidentified sermon on penitence (recto-verso) -- beginning of Gregory, Oratio ad plebem de mortalitate (PG 76. 1311D-1313A).
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