Volume / Number: 6 / 716

• Autun France Bibliothèque Municipale S 2 (3)

Written at Vosevio in a place still to be identified. Palaeographical considerations suggest Burgundian origin. Provenance the Cathedral of Autun.

Script of the Gospel text is a broad, bold uncial by an inexpert scribe with a poor sense of spacing: the bow of uncial A is horizontal; the stem of ꝺ is longish; N has an almost horizontal cross-bar and a short second upright; the top of T regularly has a comma-like pendant on the left; V-shaped U, on the line, occurs at line-end. Minuscule is used for the intercalated ‘Exposiciones’ and the long colophon at the end: open a is shaped like two contiguous c’s; the stem of d and i-longa descend below the line; o is often ꝺ-shaped; v-shaped u occurs frequently; ligatures of et, ni, ri passim. In a long and interesting subscription on fol. 186 the scribe Gundohinus explains how he was induced to copy the book for a certain matron Fausta, in honour of St John and St Mary, and how he finished it at ‘Vosevio’ during the third year of Pepin’s reign (754).

☛L. Nees, The Gundohinus Gospels, Medieval Academy Books 95, Cambridge, Mass., Medieval Academy of America, 1987. ☛McGurk, Gospel books no. 46. ☛Steffens, Paléographie latine, Pl. 37. ☛Bischoff, MAS 1, p. 15, 23, 25.

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• Script: MSS with named scribes (John 1995 with additions)
• Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels)
• Text: MSS containing Gospel text
• Text: MSS containing exegetical works
• Origin: Burgundia Scripta (Barbet-Massin, Bully, Gasse-Grandjean)