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CLA 640
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  • Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 12254
Script Visigothic Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written probably in Septimania. Provenance Corbie. The manuscript can be identified with an item in the thirteenth-century Corbie catalogue. A seventeenth-century Corbie ex-libris stands on fol. 1. Came to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the seventeenth century where it bore the number '278, olim 204'. Reached the Bibliothèque Nationale during the Revolution.

CLA Vol. 5
TM Number TM 66807
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Contents Gregorius Magnus, Homiliae in Evangelia (2–40).
Script Commentary

Script is a careful, well-formed Visigothic minuscule; y is dotted. Foll. 85–87, 150–151 were erased and used in the twelfth century to copy Homily 7 and Homily 32 (although they are already included in the collection). Interlinear transcription saec. XI on many pages. A list of proper names in ninth-century minuscule is entered on fol. 232: Gyso chs, Sabadino, Gualterio, Adeltruda, Raimpal, Hamulo, Mariola, Barello. Neumes added on foll. 181v, 224v.

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