Pastoral Care   Bibliothèque municipale de Troyes, MS 504, f. 48v

Gregory, Regular pastoralis or Pastoral Care, Bibliothèque municipale de Troyes, MS 504, f. 48v.

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A Manuscript of Gregory's Regula Pastoralis, Probably Written in Pope Gregory's Scriptorium

590 CE to 604 CE
Pastoral Care   Bibliothèque municipale de Troyes, MS 504, f. 4r

Gregory, Regula pastoralis, or "Pastoral Care" Bibliothèque municipale de Troyes, MS 504, f. 4r.

The beginning of Regula pastoralis. The first three lines, in colored ink, have run or faded. (View Larger)

A late 6th century or very early 7th century illuminated manuscript of the Regula pastoralis or  Pastoral Care by Pope Gregory I, was probably written in Rome in Gregory's scriptorium, and contains his final revised text.

Bernhard Bischoff noted that two of the corrections in the manuscript are thought to be in Gregory's own hand. The manuscript also contains very early decorated initials in red, green, and yellow penwork.

The manuscript is preserved in the  Bibliothèque Municipale, Troyes, (MS 504). Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and Middle Ages (1990) 190 and note 2.

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