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S.F. Antique Show
Les Enluminures
Paris - Chicago
Oct. '93 $180

Gregory I, Pope, St. (c. 538-593 or 4
Homiliarum in Exechielem, in Latin on Vellum
See #435 Italy, 13th C.
Written in brown ink in a small gothic hand with
cursive features on 24 lines, ruled in plummet
capitals touched in red, medieval sidenotes +
underscoring in a variety of hands, pricking marks
visible (double set) on the fore edge margin headings
in a later hand, identifying the page numbers +
the sermon, overall dimensions 145x103mm.
semi circular vellum defect on fore edge
-from a small portable copy of the Homilies, perhaps
used by an itinerant preacher.

Ezech XL om, 17. Etedueit XVII me ad atrium 1r (17) exterius, et
ecce gazophylacia, et pavimentum stratum lapide
in atrium per circuitum.

Migne, Patrologia Latina LXXVI, 998 + 999
Lib. I - 12 homilies
Lib. II - 10 homilies - (Homil. VI.)

-crossed Z sign
- wavy line for omitted r, er, re, ra
- q for qui, quia
- a in uniformly uncial
-suprascripts - Us sign, an
elongated crescent open,
toward the lower left.
- no for non

gazophylacium (gr
Migne Vol. 76
Col. 998 c
- treasure chest in a Jewish sanctuary
- " " or room in a church
- church treasure
- a ruler's treasure