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Page from Pastoral Care by Pope Gregory I

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English: Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care, ca. 600, probably Rome. Start of the work. Among the numerous manuscripts of these widely-read Regulae, perhaps the oldest is conserved in Troyes public library it is an early seventh-century manuscript in an uncial script without divisions between words, probably originating in Rome. There are about twenty-five long lines per page. The only ornamentation in the manuscript are penwork initials in red, green and yellow.
Date circa 600
Source Troyes Public Library, MS 504
Author Gregory the Great, unknown writer

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current04:12, 14 March 2007Thumbnail for version as of 04:12, 14 March 2007860 × 860 (135 KB)Johnbod (talk | contribs)Gregory the Great, ''Pastoral Care'', ca. 600, probably Rome Start of the work. Source Troyes Public Library, MS 504 Among the numerous manuscripts of these widely-read Regulae, perhaps the oldest is conserved in the Bibliotheque Municipale, Troyes;[1]

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