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Title

Dialogorum … libri quatuor de miraculis

Authors

• Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604 (http://viaf.org/viaf/100184667)

Other related names

• Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Noyon, France), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/140783031)
• Marlborough, George Spencer Churchill, Duke of, 1766-1840, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/33529816)
• Drury, Henry, 1778-1841, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/32363324)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)
• Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich), 1869-, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/7758429)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 484/21
(Philadelphia, United States, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript is a copy of the four books of Dialogues of Pope Gregory I. Framed as dialogues between Gregory and his younger associate Peter, the dialogues present the miraculous works of sixth-century Italian monks, with the second book devoted to the life of Saint Benedict. Large simple initials in red mark the beginning of each of the four books (fols. 5r, 28v, 52v, 90v), and the text is written in Protogothic script by multiple hands.

Notes

• Nineteenth-century paper flyleaves
   
• Missing lines of text supplied in a thirteenth-century hand (twelve lines at the bottom of fol. 99r, four lines at the top of fol. 99v)
   
• Trimmed marginal notes (such as fols. 122r, 126r)
   

Extent

Ii+126+ii; 255 x 165 mm bound to 260 x 180 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain; sewing visible after fols. 42, 58, 66, 74, and 98 suggests a series of gatherings of eight

Support

Parchment

Binding

Early nineteenth-century English brown diced Russian leather; gilt spine title S. Gregorii Dialogi

Layout

One column of twenty-five to thirty-one lines; frame-ruled in hardpoint with double horizontal bounding lines and text starting above the line; some prickings visible; written area: 200 x 110 mm

Decoration

Title in display uncials, alternating lines of red and brown, large simple ornamented initials in red at beginning of table of contents and book divisions (fols. 1r, 5r, 28v, 52v, 90v); rubrication, red 1-line or 2-line initials, the names Gregorius and Petrus, and marginal roman numerals in red throughout

Script

Protogothic; multiple hands

Provenance

• Formerly held by the Cathédrale Notre-Dame of Noyon (thirteenth century; inscription Liber Sancte Marie Noviomensis, f. 1r); George, fourth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford (Drury inscription, White Knight's Library, front flyleaf 1 recto), his sale London, 1819, number 1961; sold to the Reverend Henry Drury, Harrow (Drury inscription, front flyleaf 1 recto), his sale London, 1827, number 2014; sold to dealer Thomas Thorpe for Sir Thomas Phillipps, his number 3355 (pencil inscription, front flyleaf 1 verso), his sale London, 1913, number 791; sold to dealer Karl W. Hiersemann; formerly owned by Otto H. F. Vollbehr; purchased in 1946 from the Vollbehr collection through Bank of America
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• 12th century
• French
• Ornament
• France
• Church Fathers
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Table of contents
• fol. 5r — Liber primus; incipit: Quadam die nimiis quorundam saecularum tumultibus ... [fol. 5r]; explicit: Si aliud exordium sumamus. [fol. 28r]
• fol. 28v — Liber secundus; incipit: Fuit vir vitae venerabilis gratia Benedictus et nomine ... [fol. 28v]; explicit: Loquendi vires interim per silentium reparemus. [fol. 52v]
• fol. 52v — Liber tertius; incipit: Dum vicinis valde patribus intendo maiorum facta reliqueram ... [fol. 52v]; explicit: Subsequenti hoc quarto volumine demonstrabo. [fol. 90v]
• fol. 90v — Liber quartus; incipit: Postquam de paradisi gaudiis culpa exigente ... [fol. 90v]; explicit: Si ante mortem deo hostia ipsi fuerimus. [fol. 126r]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 5r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 28v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 52v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 90v — Decorated initial P