Volume / Number: 5 / 679

• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Nouv. Acq. Lat. 1063

Written certainly in France and probably in the North. Provenance Beauvais: a nineteenth-century note on the front fly-leaf says that the manuscript was 'un des plus précieux de la Bibliothèque du chapitre de Beauvais'. A label on the inside cover reads: ‘Beauvais, inv. 1417 ·Exposition de 1869'. Bought by the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1912 at the sale of the library of the Château de Troussures near Beauvais.

Script is an expert, rapid cursive minuscule, full of ligatures and retaining a number of Merovingian features, such as the suprascript a, sickle-shaped u, even on the line, and the ligatures fi, ri, and ti (for both hard and soft sound}; c and occasionally b are broken-backed; i-longa is used semi-vocally; o has a prolongation at the top; q is open when in ligature; final t after n or suprascript a is a mere oblique stroke; the cross-stroke of t often ascends boldly to the right. Half-uncial is used in the prologue on fol. 73.

☛Tewes, Luxeuil No. 32 (MSS with other close relationships to Luxeuil). ☛Dated VII in Wood 2017.

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• Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
• Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels)
• Text: MSS containing Gospel text
• Origin: Luxeuil—MSS from the school of Luxeuil (Tewes 2011)