Volume / Number: 5 / 632

• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 12190

Written probably at Corbie. The manuscript was certainly at Corbie as early as saec. IX in.: part of the title on fol. Av is by the well-known uncial hand of an early ninth-century Corbie librarian. The Corbie seventeenth-century ex-libris stands on fol. 1. Came to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the seventeenth century where it had the number '758, olim 793', and to the Bibliothèque Nationale during the Revolution.

Script is a robust though not very elegant uncial by at least two scribes; the main hand is rather heavy and makes use here and there of half-uncial letters or whole words (there are 6 lines of half-uncial in the middle of fol. 16 and 13 at the top of fol. 178v): the uncial letter A has a pear-shaped bow; LL often run together; round letters like C and uncial E often terminate in a thick dot (foll. 17, 100v, etc.). Marginal analyses of contents in mixed half-uncial and cursive are found on many pages (41, 41v, 42, 42v, 45, 49, 60, 62v, 63); they are strikingly like the compressed half-uncial capitula on fol. 240v. The addition on fol. 35v in minuscule saec. VIII–IX is also of a French type. The marginal entry on fol. 14v is in an older type of cursive also seen in a number of other MSS from Corbie (see CLA 5.619); an R transected by a slanting, pennant-like stroke on fol. 48 probably stands for 'require'; it is by the same scribe. Notae Tironianae occur on foll. 92v, 98v, 163v. The manuscript is palaeographically instructive because it shows the contemporary half-uncial.

☛Index Tironianorum.

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• Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
• Text: MSS containing exegetical works
• Origin: Corbie—Merovingian MSS written at Corbie (Ganz 1990)
• Provenance: Corbie library—MSS from Corbie (Zechiel-Eckes)