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• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 4884

Written doubtless in Northern France, probably in the Corbie area. The same mixed type is found in titles and rubrics of manuscripts in the eN-type and those written for Abbot Maurdramnus of Corbie. Belonged to Claude Dupuy: on fol. 1 in a sixteenth-century hand is the entry ‘Cl. Puteani’. Later Regius MS 4901 (see fol. 1). A seventeenth-century copy of this manuscript saec. XVI–XVII is now MS Hamburg Stadtbibliothek 269.

Script is a curious mixture of uncial and half-uncial elements, a transition from majuscule to minuscule, of a type found in manuscripts of the North of France; there are quires which are in the main uncial (foll. 41–48) and others in the main half-uncial (foll. 33–39v): A frequently has the capital form; the medial stroke of N is usually low; the half-uncial hand writes two forms of D, a flat-topped Ᵹ like an Arabic 3 perched on the base-line, an m with the last bow very roundish, N with the cross-stroke almost horizontal and very low; LL run together; Y is occasionally dotted. On fol. 1 under an erased line which probably revealed the home of the manuscript, stands the title in Caroline minuscule, saec. IX–X, which reads: 'Cronica georgii ambianensis episcopi'; another hand added soon after: 'uel sicut alii dicunt uictoris turonensis episcopi'. Georgius was bishop of Amiens in 798.

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• Provenance: Corbie library—MSS in Maudramnus script (Ganz 1990)
• Provenance: Corbie library—MSS from Corbie (Zechiel-Eckes)