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The manuscript contains, together with mss. 169 and 170 in the Dijon Public Library, books I-XVI of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Iob. Originally they made up a single volume […]. Famous for its many historiated initials relating to the activities of the Cistercian monks as well as Gregory the Great’s text, […] the decoration has no precedents in Bourgogne; but the sinuous treatment of the figures leads us to believe that we may be dealing with an artist of English training.
FABRIZIO CRIVELLO
Reproduced here: f. 5r showing Gregory the Great offering his work to Leander of Seville.
The complete record can be found in the exhibit catalogue Gregorio Magno e l'invenzione del Medioevo, ed. Luigi G. G. Ricci, Florence, SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo 2006 (Archivum Gregorianum, 9).