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Volume / Number: 5 / 697

CLA 697
Shelfmarks
  • Paris France Louvre E 7332
Script Uncial
Date V–VI (480 - 520)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain; probably a centre where Greek was the more familiar language. The leaves are manifestly the remains of a Latin textbook for Greek-speaking pupils.

CLA Vol. 5
TM Number TM 64909
Support Parchment
Contents Grammatica Latino-Graeca (fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is a graceful, expert uncial recalling the distinct type found in some legal manuscripts like that of the Florentine Digests or the Verona Gaius and some legal fragments found in Egypt (CLA 3.295; 4.488; 3.292): the bow of uncial A is low; B is high, uncial E is open; N, O, and T follow the Greek rather than the Latin canon.

Notes

☛B. Rochette, Le latin dans le monde grec, pp. 179–80. ☛M. De Nonno, Manuscripts and Tradition of Grammatical Texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Cassino 2000, p. 136 and n.11. ☛M. C. Scappaticcio, Artes grammaticae in frammenti pp. 184–226. ☛E. Dickey, R. Ferri, ZPE 187 (2013), pp. 173–89.

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