Volume / Number: 3 / 303a

• Lucca Italy Biblioteca Capitolare 490 (foll. 2–31)

Written no doubt at Lucca, the precise year being either 787 or 796, to judge from the chronological entry on fol. 30.

Script is a small pointed pre-Caroline minuscule which leans to the left and has features recalling Visigothic minuscule: open a is very open; ꝺ is more common than d; g is curiously top-heavy and altogether unlike the form typical of Visigothic MSS; the shoulder of r curves boldly upwards; t has the Visigothic form; i-longa occurs initially; there are numerous ligatures: ti ligature is used for hard and soft ti; the script has some kinship with that seen in parts of foll. 49, 71, 95, etc. (see next item); the scribe seems to have collaborated on the second part of the Liber Pontificalis, but there he regularly writes uncial.

☛Bischoff, Katalog 2 no. 2524.