Volume / Number: 6 / 719

• Autun France Bibliothèque Municipale S 21 (20)

Written probably in North-east France in the region that produced the celebrated Gelasian Sacramentary in the Vatican (CLA 1.105 and CLA 5, p. 15). Provenance the Cathedral of Autun.

Script is a good example of a distinct type whose characteristic feature is the open b with a tag to the right, described in CLA 1.105 and 5.558: in this manuscript the tag is absent when the b is not joined to the following letter; a has two forms: one resembles two c's or contiguous oc; in the other, sometimes suprascript, the first stroke turns up to the left; the form of a characteristic of the Corbie a-b type also occurs; noteworthy are h with its shaft markedly bent to the left and o resembling small uncial ꝺ; other features confirm an unmistakable kinship to the a-b type. The majuscule and the uncial used in the colophons and title are of a distinct type seen in several other manuscripts (CLA 1.105, 5.567, and 594).

☛Bischoff, MAS 1, p. 31.

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• Origin: Burgundia Scripta (Barbet-Massin, Bully, Gasse-Grandjean)