Folium 41 of the Moralia in Job of Stephen Harding (Bibliothèque municipale, Dijon, Ms. 173). The Historically Initial I of the "Intellectus sacri eloquii" from the book 21 has the shape of a tree cut by a monk.
The Moralia in Job of Moralia in Iob is a commentary on the Bible Book Job that wrote Gregory the Great between 578 and 595. It is with thirty-five books the most important work of the church father and an important example of medieval Bijbelexegese. Gregory denotes the Bible Book on three levels: literally, transcendental and moral.
The work was highly respected in the Middle Ages and there are many promised copies of. An example is the script from the French cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. The handwriting originated in 1111 on behalf of the then English abbot Stephen Harding. For the knowledge of evolution in painting, it is a remarkable document, with reliefs in the limited color range of green and blue, characteristic of the Romanesque style period. In a often humourous way, it illustrates a story about the activities in the daily life of Cistercian monks.
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