Volume / Number: 4 / 428

• Rome Italy Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Ms. Vitt. Em. 1006

Written in Italy, probably at Nonantola. The MS was certainly there by the ninth century, to judge by the added portion. Migrated to Santa Croce, Rome, in the seventeenth century. Stolen during the Napoleonic period, and later acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps, in whose library at Cheltenham it had the number 12,260. Entered Mr A. Chester Beatty’s collection in 1924, in whose catalogue it bore the number 4. Acquired by the Italian government in 1932.

Script is a not very calligraphic North Italian pre-Caroline minuscule, similar to that of Sessor. 94 and Sessor. 590 (CLA 4.425, 427): c is often broken; ꝺ has the uncial form; frequent ligatures with i and with t; ti ligature is used indifferently for both hard and soft ti.

☛Formerly Cheltenham, Private collection Phillipps 12260; formerly Dublin, Chester Beatty Library 4.

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