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GREGORIUS I (St., Pope, ca. 540-604). Moralia, sive Expositio in Job. Venice: Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, 11 April 1496.
Super-chancery 2° (308x217mm). Collation: a-b8 c-z10 10 A-H10 I8 (a1title, a2r register, c1 letter from Gregory to Bp. Leander, c2v preface, c5v text, I7v colophon, I8 blank). 344 leaves. 49-50 lines and headline, double column. Type: 3*:74(90)G, 8:93aG, 15:175G (title). Lombard capitals, 5- to 10-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Occasional light foxing, small wormholes in first and last few quires affecting a few letters.) Fine contemporary Italian brown goatskin over thin wooden boards, blindstamped, four catches without clasps, brass catchplates on back cover, (some wear to covers and spine ends), title written on lower and fore-edge. Provenance: inscription on title partly blotted out; note in Spanish dated 1640 on title verso.
In this, his longest work, Gregory begins with the literal meaning of the Book of Job and moves on to examine its mystical and allegorical senses. It became a summa of moral ascetism and mysticism of the Middle Ages and beyond. HC *7933; GW 11435; BMC V, 312 (IB. 21734); Goff G-433; IDL 2100; IGI 4445; BSB G-321
Super-chancery 2° (308x217mm). Collation: a-b8 c-z10 10 A-H10 I8 (a1title, a2r register, c1 letter from Gregory to Bp. Leander, c2v preface, c5v text, I7v colophon, I8 blank). 344 leaves. 49-50 lines and headline, double column. Type: 3*:74(90)G, 8:93aG, 15:175G (title). Lombard capitals, 5- to 10-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Occasional light foxing, small wormholes in first and last few quires affecting a few letters.) Fine contemporary Italian brown goatskin over thin wooden boards, blindstamped, four catches without clasps, brass catchplates on back cover, (some wear to covers and spine ends), title written on lower and fore-edge. Provenance: inscription on title partly blotted out; note in Spanish dated 1640 on title verso.
In this, his longest work, Gregory begins with the literal meaning of the Book of Job and moves on to examine its mystical and allegorical senses. It became a summa of moral ascetism and mysticism of the Middle Ages and beyond. HC *7933; GW 11435; BMC V, 312 (IB. 21734); Goff G-433; IDL 2100; IGI 4445; BSB G-321