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Dialogues of Gregory the Great (S. Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi) [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]

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Title	Dialogues of Gregory the Great (S. Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi) [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]
Date	1475
Date approximate?	yes
Creator	Ege, Otto F.
Subject headings	Manuscripts, Medieval -- Specimens Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens Illumination of books and manuscripts Manuscripts, Medieval
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This composite text includes the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (St. Gregory the Great, 540-604 A.D.), which are largely autobiographical, and his writing on the lives and miracles of the early Italian Church Fathers. The book hand used is known as lettre Bâtarde, a semi-cursive hand closely related to the everyday writing used by the people. Many French and Flemish printing types were based on similar Bâtarde hands. The writing was done with comparative speed; the even tone and the exact alignment of the right hand margin, as well as the beauty of individual letters, are admirable. The long ascenders in the upper line were borrowed from the legal documents of the day. Many printers followed the practice shown here of emphasizing the tone of the first word or two in the beginning of a paragraph. It was usually done without varying the style of the letters, while here we see angular gothic used in the first third of the line, followed by the Bâtarde script . France: Dialogues of Gregory the Great (S. Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi). Late 15th C. Latin text; Lettre Bâtarde.
Type	Text
Original format	manuscripts
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	la
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts: Western Europe XII-XVI century Ege Descriptions
Folder	Leaf 41
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	Z6605.L3 E44_41
Digital master format	Image/tiff
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	882569361

Dialogues of Gregory the Great (S. Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi) [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]

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