{"id":9121,"date":"2016-12-24T05:53:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T05:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2018-05-22T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:26:12","slug":"a-leaf-from-gregorys-dialogues-reused-to-bind-euthymius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/a-leaf-from-gregorys-dialogues-reused-to-bind-euthymius\/","title":{"rendered":"A Leaf from Gregory’s Dialogues Reused for Euthymius"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Leaf from Gregory’s Dialogues<\/em>
\nReused for Binding
\nA Copy of
\nEuthymius Zigabenus’s On the Psalms<\/em><\/h2>\n

Budny Handlist 3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In our blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a> (see its Contents List<\/a>), Mildred Budny (see Her Page<\/a>) continues to report the results of research for her Illustrated Handlist<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Here, we focus upon a leaf plucked from its 12th-century manuscript and pressed into service, with trimmed edges and mitered folds, as the vellum covering for a binding for a different text of small format.\u00a0 Both texts, primary and secondary in the life of the leaf, concern religious subjects, but they emanate from authors of different dates, locations, and languages in the Latin West and the Orthodox East respectively.\u00a0 The primary text represents a remnant of a text and an author familiar in some other blogposts, which consider the <\/em>Dialogues, the<\/em> Sermons or<\/em> Homilies, and other texts by Pope Gregory the Great<\/a> (pope from 590 to 694 CE).
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Reused<\/a>

Handlist 3, Recto<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Reused<\/a>

Handlist 3, Verso<\/p><\/div>\n

Part of Gregory’s Dialogues<\/em>, Book III, Chapter 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

(on Andreas, Bishop of Fondi\/Fundi<\/a>):<\/strong>
\n Sections 2 (Hic namque uenerabilis uir<\/em>) \u2013 <\/strong>
\n8 (uel quae in conuentu<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Present measurements:
\nCirca 357 \u00d7 237 mm
\n< written area circa 266 \u00d7 133 mm >
\nSingle column of 28 lines
\nin revived Caroline minuscule
\nwithout embellishments
\nGermany, circa 1175<\/p>\n

Reused for some time as the vellum cover for the binding of a copy of
\nEuthymius Zigabenus<\/a>‘s Commentary on the Psalms<\/em>
\nin Greek or in Latin translation?
\n(now lost or preserved elsewhere in a location unknown)<\/p>\n

For this secondary use, the remnants of a set of titles on the outside of the spine of the cover (the original verso of the reused leaf) remain in place, albeit abraded and fragmented, as both a pasted, inscribed paper label (orientated along the ‘horizontal’ across the spine) and an ink inscription on the reused leaf itself in Capitals (‘vertical’, with the tops of those letters turned toward the ‘front cover’).\u00a0 Another, smaller and fragmentary pasted label with a broad rectangular border stands near the bottom of the broad spine of the cover and partly overlies the ‘vertical’ spine inscription.<\/p>\n

\"Reused<\/a><\/p>\n

Acquired, probably by purchase (according to the Owner’s recollections), in France in the past 15 years or so, but before 2007 when I first saw and began to photograph the leaf.\u00a0\u00a0 This item and others in the Illustrated Handlist<\/a><\/em> acquired in France at various times and by various means (purchase, gift, or exchange), came from a single source in the D\u00e9partement<\/span> of Sa\u00f4ne-et-Loire<\/a>, from about 1999 onward.\u00a0 Because the leaf does not carry indications of its original place and time of production, apart from its materials, layout, design, script, orthography, and punctuation, those unknowns must depend upon evaluations of the style of the script, lacking any forms of embellishment, such as decorated initials, which might have provided possibly more closely datable symptoms than the letters “alone”.<\/p>\n

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Gregory’s Dialogues<\/em><\/h3>\n
\"Ivory<\/a>

Ivory Plaque with Gregory the Great as Scribe Inspired by the Holy Spirit in the Form of a Dove, with Accompanying Scribes. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Inv. Nr. Kunstkammer, 8399), late 10th century, Lotharingia? Photograph by Vassil via Wikipedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

On Gregory’s Dialogues<\/em> and their widespread transmission, see the Report in this Blog of on-going discoveries of leaves from another dismembered manuscript of the Dialogues<\/em> (and other texts):<\/p>\n