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CLA 657
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  • Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 13349
Script eN-type Minuscule
Date VIII med (726 - 775)
Origin and Provenance

Written in France, probably in the North in the same scriptorium that produced MS Lat. 12239 (CLA 5.638). Provenance Corbie: the manuscript can be identified with an item in the thirteenth-century Corbie catalogue; the seventeenth-century entry 'Ex libris S. Petri Corbeiensis' is seen on fol. 1. Later at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where it was numbered '1274, olim 137' (fol. 1), saec. XVIII. The manuscript has a Carolingian binding.

CLA Vol. 5
TM Number TM 66825
Support Parchment
Contents Hieronymus, In Ecclesiasten.
Script Commentary

Script is a pre-Caroline minuscule of a distinct type, recalling half-uncial and retaining some cursive elements, described under Lat. 12239 (CLA 5.638): is often looped; the nt ligature occurs even in mid-word; te and tu are mostly in ligature.

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