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Detail View: Rylands Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL061099dc
Reference Number: 
Latin MS 118
Parent Work Title: 
Gregorii Moralium, Libri XI-XVI
Creator: 
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Creator Role: 
Author
Date Created: 
10th-11th century
Page/Sheet: 
Title page [1v]
Image Sequence Number: 
001v
Description: 
The title in two columns mainly in red rustic capitals. The initial M of column one is in gold filled in mainly with green and the first word, Moralium has all its other letters filled with gold. The style of the initials shows the Celtic influence on the continent. Written in Germany or Switzerland.
Language Code: 
lat
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Bible
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Technique Used: 
Illumination (image-making process)
Support: 
Vellum
Places Covered: 
Germany
Places Covered: 
Switzerland
Item Height: 
361 mm
Item Width: 
271 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Notes: 
Finding aids: M.R. James, 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 (München, 1980); M. Tyson, `Handlist of Additions to the Collection of Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 1908-28', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 12 (1928), pp. 581-609; F. Taylor, Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1937), pp. 7-21; N.R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, III, Lampeter - Oxford (Oxford, 1983), pp. 464-8.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2006-05-23
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2006-07
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Rylands