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[[Image:Blacksmithmonk.jpg|thumb|right|An [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminated initial]] from Gregory's ''Commentary on Job'', Abbey of Saint-Pierre at Préaux, Normandy]]
[[Image:Blacksmithmonk.jpg|thumb|right|An [[Illuminated manuscript|illuminated initial]] from Gregory's ''Commentary on Job'', Abbey of Saint-Pierre at Préaux, Normandy]]


[[Saint Gregory]]'s '''''Commentary on Job''''', or '''''Moralia, sive Expositio in Job''''', sometimes called '''''Moralia in Job''''' or '''''Magna Moralia''''' (but not to be confused with [[Aristotle]]'s ''[[Magna Moralia]]''), was written between 578 and 595, begun when Gregory was at the court of [[Tiberius II]] at [[Constantinople]], but finished only after he had already been in [[Rome]] for several years. It is Gregory's major work, filling some 35 books or 6 volumes, a commentary on the [[Book of Job]] entitled "An Extensive Consideration of Moral Questions".
[[Saint Gregory]]'s '''''Commentary on Job''''', or '''''Moralia, sive Expositio in Job''''', sometimes called '''''Moralia in Job''''' or '''''Magna Moralia''''' (but not to be confused with [[Aristotle]]'s ''[[Magna Moralia]]''), was written between 578 and 595, begun when Gregory was at the court of [[Tiberius II]] at [[Constantinople]], but finished only after he had already been in [[Rome]] for several years. It is Gregory's major work, filling some 35 books or 6 volumes, a commentary on the ''[[Book of Job]]'' entitled "An Extensive Consideration of Moral Questions".


==Editions==
==Manuscripts==
*[[Moralia in Job (British Library, Add MS 31031)]] (late 8th century)
*[[Commentary on Job of 945]]
*[[Cîteaux Moralia in Job]] (1111)


==Editions==
* Carolingian manuscript copy of [[Moralia in Job (British Library, Add MS 31031)|Moralia in Job]] produced in Laon (late 8th century AD)
*[[Cîteaux Moralia in Job|Citeaux Monastery illustrated manuscript]], [[Burgundy]] (1111)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170202063215/http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/collection/incu_04.html Basel: Nicolaus Kesler], [[Basel]] (1496)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170202063215/http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/collection/incu_04.html Basel: Nicolaus Kesler], [[Basel]] (1496)
*''[[Patrologia Latina]]'', volumes 75–76.
*''[[Patrologia Latina]]'', volumes 75–76.
*[http://www.lectionarycentral.com/GregoryMoraliaIndex.html English translation] in ''[[Library of the Fathers]]'' (4 vols., Oxford, 1844)
*[http://www.lectionarycentral.com/GregoryMoraliaIndex.html English translation] in ''[[Library of the Fathers]]'' (4 vols., Oxford, 1844)

==External links==
* {{librivox book | title=Morals on the Book of Job | author=Pope Gregory}}


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==External links==
* {{librivox book | title=Morals on the Book of Job | author=Pope Gregory}}


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An illuminated initial from Gregory's Commentary on Job, Abbey of Saint-Pierre at Préaux, Normandy

Saint Gregory's Commentary on Job, or Moralia, sive Expositio in Job, sometimes called Moralia in Job or Magna Moralia (but not to be confused with Aristotle's Magna Moralia), was written between 578 and 595, begun when Gregory was at the court of Tiberius II at Constantinople, but finished only after he had already been in Rome for several years. It is Gregory's major work, filling some 35 books or 6 volumes, a commentary on the Book of Job entitled "An Extensive Consideration of Moral Questions".

Manuscripts

Editions

External links