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A late 6th century or very early 7th century illuminated manuscript of the Regula pastoralis or  Pastoral Care by Pope Gregory I, was written in Rome in Gregory's scriptorium, and contains his final revised text. Bernhard Bischoff notes that two of the corrections in the manuscript are thought to be in Gregory's own hand. The manuscript contains very early decorated initials in red, green, and yellow penwork.

The manuscript is preserved in the  Bibliothèque Municipale, Troyes, (MS 504). Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and Middle Ages (1990) 190 and note 2.