English: Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care, ca. 600, probably Rome. Start of the work. Among the numerous manuscripts of these widely-read Regulae, perhaps the oldest is conserved in Troyes public library it is an early seventh-century manuscript in an uncial script without divisions between words, probably originating in Rome. There are about twenty-five long lines per page. The only ornamentation in the manuscript are penwork initials in red, green and yellow.