Volume / Number: 8 / 1028

• Bamberg Germany Staatliche Bibliothek Class. 35 a
• Bamberg Germany Staatliche Bibliothek Patr. 4 (B.II.6)

Written in Italy, to judge by the excellent script. Mentioned in an inventory of manuscripts which the Emperor Otto III found at Piacenza 'sibi reservatos' in the years 998–1001. Given to Bamberg cathedral probably by his successor Henry II (1002–1024), who in 1007 founded the Bamberg episcopal see. A copy made at Bamberg in the eleventh century is now MS Class. 35 (M. IV. 9). Dismembered for repairing manuscripts or bindings in the fifteenth century. The fragments were discovered in the paper MS Theol. 99 (Q. IV. 27) saec. XV from the Bamberg Carmelite monastery and in MS Bibl. 41 (B. II. 16) saec. XI from the cathedral library; the tenth-century manuscript with the offset, Patr. 4, comes from the same library.

Script is a small, graceful uncial of an ancient type by a master scribe: the bow of A is pointed; the hasta of E is high; NT occur in ligature.

☛M. Tischler, 'Neue Fragmente der spätantiken Bamberger Livius-Handschrift (CLA VIII. 1028 Addenda)' Scriptorium 54 (2000) 268–280.