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CLA 95
Shelfmarks
  • Vatican City Italy Biblioteca del Vaticano Palatinus Lat. 554 (foll. 5–12)
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain, but probably an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent; in any case the MS was on the Continent soon after it was written. The last page contains numerous probationes pennae in ordinary minuscule, among them the name Hildihalt (or Hildibalt).

CLA Vol. 1
TM Number TM 66191
Support Parchment
Contents Egbertus, Poenitentiale.
Script Commentary

Written in a rather angular minuscule, but the first page is in majuscule; g before r and n has the s-like form.

Notes

☛Added a possible reading of the name on the manuscript’s last page.

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Last modified 25 March 2022