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• Florence Italy Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 18112 (P. S. I. 1182)

Written in some great centre of calligraphy, probably at Byzantium. Acquired at Cairo by Signorina Medea Norsa in 1933. Found at the ancient Antinoë.

Script is a stately calligraphic uncial, of a distinct type, also seen in a number of other legal MSS, including the Gaius of Verona and the Laurentian Digests described in CLA 3.295, written by a hand accustomed to Greek: the bow of uncial A is a low roundish hook; B is high, the upper part is open and the lower bow is an oval leaning to the left; the hasta of uncial E is fine; the tail of G has an upward hook to the right; O is made in the Greek manner, with the axis vertical; the bows of P and uncial Q are full; that of R descends to the base-line, the last stroke being almost horizontal; S at line-ends has the peculiar form, with comma-like upper stroke, seen in the Florentine Digests. Marginalia in contemporary Greek uncial, very tiny and expert, including some Latin words in b-d uncial.