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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS30524
- Shelfmark:
- ege-41
- Title:
- Ege leaf 41: Dialogues of Pope Gregory I, France, 1400s
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1400s
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Vellum (parchment)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 30.75 cm x 22.5 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ege, Otto F.
- Note:
- Script: bastarda
Decoration: columns (layout features); marginalia (annotations);
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 41. VELLUM LEAF FROM A MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
FRANCE
Late XVth Century
Latin Text
Lettre Bâtarde
Dialogues of Gregory the Great
(S
Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
This composite text includes the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (St.Gregory the Great, 540- 604 A.D.), which are largely autobiographical, and his writings on the lives and miracles of the early Italian Church Fathers
The book hand used is known as lettre bâtarde, a semi-cursive hand closely related to the everyday writing used by the people
Many French and Flemish printing types were based on similar bâtarde hands
The writing was done with comparative speed
the even tone and the exact alignment of the right hand margin, as well as the beauty of individual letters, are admirable
The long ascenders in the upper line were borrowed from the legal documents of that day
Many printers followed the practice shown here of emphasizing the tone of the first word or two in the beginning of a paragraph
It was usually done without varying the style of the letters, while here we see angular gothic used in the first third of the line, followed by the bâtarde script.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/175
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:175/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
