Ɵ Gregory the Great, Homily, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Southern Italy, 13th century]

Ɵ Gregory the Great, Homily on Luke 13:6, in Latin, in Beneventan minuscule, decorated manuscript on parchment[Southern Italy (probably Montecassino), thirteenth century] Single leaf, with remains of double column of 25 lines in a skilled Monte Cassino-type Beneventan minuscule, capitals touched in red, red rubrics and simple red initials, recovered from a binding and with large section from upper outer corner of leaf lost through old water damage, somewhat darkened overall, other folds and holes, irregularly trimmed at top and bottom, part of late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century paper label ("Giornale del card'Bernardo Salviati 1562") overlaid to spine, leather thong at edge remaining from reuse as binding, overall fair and presentable, 400 by 280mm.; in white cloth-covered card binding Provenance:1. Probably written for use in Montecassino itself, founded by St. Benedict of Nursia c. 529, and the site of the creation of both the Benedictine Order and Beneventan script.2. Cardinal Bernardo Salviati (1470/92-1568), son of Lucrezia de Medici, herself the daughter of Lorenzo de Medici. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1561, and lived in Trastevere, Rome. This fragment was reused on the binding of a book of his, apparently his private manuscript journal, dated 1562.3. Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, and then Sam Fogg, cat. 16, Text Manuscripts and Documents 2200BC to 1600AD, 1995, no. 24.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1919, acquired from Fogg. Published: V. Brown, 'A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts (IV)', Mediaeval Studies, 61 (1999), p. 366. BMB. Bibliografia dei manuscritti in scrittura beneventana, 1994.