> Actually, I've a question too, in this connection - on the cover of
> Markus' Gregory book there's reproduction of a ninth(I think)-century
> continental illustration of this episode - but frustratingly, no
> discussion of in the text! Any ideas? the only leads I have on
> iconography associated with Gregory are in Paul Meyvaert's 'Bede
> and Gregory the Great' Jarrow lecture, and they relate to a depictions
> of Gregory holding a book, rather than writing one.
>
> Kate Rambridge
> University of Bristol
Dear Kate,
I've never seen a copy of Markus's book, but a good possibility is
the the single leaf from the Registrum Gregorii made in Trier,
probably in 983-84, by the so-called Gregory Master for Archbishop
Egbert, now Trier, Stadtbibl., MS 171/1626. It is quite widely
illuminated in books dealing with Ottonian manuscript illumination,
e.g. C.R. Dodwell, The Pictorial Arts in the West, 800-1200. If
this isn't the image, it probably should have been: it is splendid!
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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