Volume / Number: 4 / 512

• Verona Italy Biblioteca Capitolare LXII (60) (foll. 4–81) [palimpsest new]

Origin uncertain, most likely Verona, to judge by the family resemblance to CLA 4.476 and 478. Certain palaeographical features clearly point to a North Italian centre; the angular initials and the bent shafts of b and l suggest Insular influence. The MS has been much disfigured by reagent, rendering many pages almost illegible. Repaired in the Vatican in recent times.

Script is a curious, expert cursive minuscule full of ligatures: a is mostly suprascript or rests on its side when in ligature; the stem of b and of l bends; the shoulder of r extends over the following letter, the ti ligature is used indifferently for both the soft and hard ti; the form of z resembling Arabic 2 and the ꞅꞅ ligature are distinctly North Italian features (cf. CLA 3.**322). Numerous minuscule corrections and additions by various readers.

☛CLA 4 p. VI, 'It is open to dispute whether items 3.323b and 4.512 should be called "pre-Caroline minuscule" rather than "cursive minuscule".'