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Volume / Number: 6 / 717b

CLA 717b
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  • Autun France Bibliothèque Municipale S 3 (4) (foll. 6–24)
Script Pre-Caroline Minuscule
Date VIII² (751 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written presumably at Flavigny, in order to complete the slightly earlier uncial manuscript described in the preceding item.

CLA Vol. 6
TM Number TM 66885
Support Parchment
Contents Canones, praefationes et capitula Evangeliorum.
Script Commentary

Script is a carefully written, characteristic pre-Caroline minuscule by one hand: open a is like two consecutive c's; the stem of h often bends backwards; the top of t frequently descends in a loop to the left; i after goes well below the line.

Notes

☛Maître, Catalogue, dates to s. VIII–IX. ☛Bischoff, Frühkarolingische Handschriften, p. 307. ☛Bischoff, MAS 3, p. 19.

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