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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3001

Autographs
1160 (c.) the writings of St Gregory the Great, The Homilies on the Gospel. The style of writing indicates an English copyist. A parchment sheet for a total of two pages with 35 lines written in brown ink in justified with traces of the two vertical lines and 35 horizontal lines to delimit the layout (210 x 120 mm).

Written in Latin, the sheet has two initial capitals I and L, in red ink for opening the Homily IX, which develop in the middle of the first page. The writing is a carolina with some elements of the later Gothic writing (like the bulges of the wolf-tooth rod). There are some minor age marks but generally in a very fine state of preservation. Photo

Pope Saint Gregory I (c.540 – 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 3 September 590. He is famous for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian Mission, to convert a Pagan people to Christianity. Gregory is also well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as Pope. English translations of Eastern texts sometimes list him as Gregory "Dialogos" or the Latin equivalent "Dialogus".

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