# Gregory the Great: Moralia in Job [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1101-1150 - Technique: Manuscript \(Mss. 168-170, 4 volumes\), 460 x 324 mm \(folio size\) ## Commentary Gregory the Great: Moralia in Job c. 1111 Manuscript \(Mss. 168-170, 4 volumes\), 460 x 324 mm \(folio size\) Bibliothèque Municipale, Dijon The Moralia in Job contains a series of initials showing monks engaged in everyday tasks, the design of which imaginatively follows the shape of the letter. For example, the initial "I" on folio 41r becomes the trunk of a tree, with a lay brother cutting of its upper branches with a hand axe, while below him a monk cuts away at the base of the tree with an axe, seemingly oblivious to the consequences of his action for his colleague. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()