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, Add MS 31031 is an 8th-century
illuminated
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* Illuminated manuscript
See also
* Illuminate (disambi ...
copy of
Gregory the Great
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's ''
Moralia in Job'', books I–V. The
codex is missing the last folio and ends in the words "et singuli tota". The
manuscript
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is written in
Merovingian script
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on
vellum
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. It has 145 folios. The manuscript has colored initials and titles. In the 15th century it belonged to
Ottobeuren Abbey
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For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the 40-odd self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a v ...
in
Bavaria
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.
References
British Library catalogue entry
8th-century illuminated manuscripts
8th-century Christian texts
Christian illuminated manuscripts
British Library additional manuscripts
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