Detail View: Medieval Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader Latin MS 83
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Reference Number:
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Latin MS 83
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Previous Accession Number:
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Crawford 93
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Parent Work Title:
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S. Gregorii Moralia in Iob
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Moralia in Job
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Translated Parent Work Title:
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St Gregory's commentary on Job
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Creator:
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Gomez
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Creator Role:
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Scribe
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Creator:
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Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Display Creator:
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Gregory the Great
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Date Created:
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10th century
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Description:
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Manuscript of 'S. Gregorii Moralia in Iob'. Modern binding of brown leather, with blind tooling by Zaehnsdorf. The manuscript contains a number of small decorative initials, mostly the work of one hand. In the latter part of the manuscript, birds, animals, fish, and human figures occur and are purely decorative. The text of Job is written in red throughout. The text is written in double columns of 47 lines to a page. Written in Spain, in the 10th century by a scribe named Gomez, in a good, clear, small Visigothic hand.
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Language Code:
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lat-ES
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Subject:
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Bible--Commentaries
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Subject:
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Bible. O.T.
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Subject:
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Christianity
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Subject:
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Religion
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Blind tooling
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Support:
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Leather
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Item Height:
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420 mm
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Item Width:
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300 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Provenance:
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Bateman, Thomas, 1821-1861, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (Munich, 1980)
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2011-10-05
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2011-12
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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