Moralia in Job (Latin manuscript)

Gregory the Great

Moralia in Job (Latin manuscript)

France

early 12th century

The binding is English from the 1830s. The panels affixed to the covers, however, have been saved from a French ca. 1500 binding of tan calf, with repeated roll-tool floral patterns that saw substantial favor over the final decade of the 15th and the first decade of the 16th century. They are probably Parisian, and their very generous size (imperial folio) is not the least of their qualities.

Gift of Archer M. Huntington, 1912.

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