Moralia In Job
The Moralia of Job is a commentary on the Book of Job by Gregory I said Grand Dialogue or ( 532 - 604 ), who became pope in 590.
Origins
Pope Benedict I ordered Gregory and seven other monks as deacons of Rome (regionarii) and had sent him as apocrisiaire (apocrisiarius) in Constantinople, mission extended by Pelagius II 's successor Benedict, 579. Of approximately 579 to 581, where he will work with two important tasks: The controversy with Eutychius, the patriarch of Constantinople, on the nature of the body after the resurrection * and the drafting of Moralia.
It is officiating at Constantinople Gregory preached a series of sermons on the Book of Job. These sermons were first recorded and transcribed in abbreviated form on wax tablets. Then, this new text has been transcribed on papyrus scrolls and wax tablets were smoothed to be reused. Thirty five rolls of papyrus were used for these Moralia (corresponding to 35 chapters).
It was around 583 that Gregory went to offer his Moralia Leander of Seville. In the dedication of his work, Gregory is criticized for having waited too long to follow his vocation as a monk, he has long felt. Gregory, however, was actually less than 575 to 579, which does not prevent him from Constantinople to live in an almost conventual in the company of many of his brothers brought the Clius, for which he transcribed his work first.
After Gregory became pope in 590, the text has been transcribed once again, this time on parchment, six in all, written in uncial.
Manuscripts
We admire some thumbnails of the Moralia of Citeaux , their violent scenes (war, fighting), wild (animal fights) or those, more peaceful, the daily life of monks (harvest, logging, etc..) or, more generally , the life of the feudal era, without really understanding their deep meaning. However, it was commonplace to handle the allegory to illuminate spiritual things, incomprehensible nature of the understanding alone, do we think. In addition, the Moralia are not the only work where Gregory depicts animals playing for the reader the struggle between good and evil: Gregory also applied to animals tropological interpretation of its Dialog (Dialogue). Moreover, we must never forget the historical context and the message may want to get one who directs the work of the manuscript.
The manuscript is partly palimpsest , but not the portfolio presented: one guesses the text back (when the bigger picture) is the next page, the parchment is too late to receive a text on both sides. This codex was probably copied Luxeuil : it is indeed written with the tiny so-called Luxeuil. The Scriptorium at Luxeuil has written about another of Gregory's Commentary Ezekiel, copied to 650-700.
One copy is kept at the British Library, MS 31031 of the eighth century , containing books I through V. There, the last folio and ends with the words "and singular Tota. It is written in Merovingian scipt on vellum, and has 145 folios. In the fifteenth century , the manuscript belonged to the monastery Ottobeuren, Bavaria.
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