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CLA	103
Shelfmarks	Vatican City Italy Biblioteca del Vaticano Reginensis Latinus 257
Script	Uncial
Date	VIII¹ (701 - 750)
Origin and Provenance	Written in France in the same scriptorium as Vatic. Regin. Lat. 11, CLA 1.101. Belonged to the library of St Denis: on fol. 1 is the St Denis press-mark.
CLA Vol.	1
TM Number	TM 66198
Support	Parchment
Contents	Sacramentarium Anglosaxonicum; Missale Francorum.
Script Commentary	Gaily-coloured initials and title-page (fol. 116v), very important for the history of Merovingian art. Script is a very carefully formed but artificial uncial with ornate serifs: the two uprights of N are stake-shaped, the tail of G is wedge-shaped, LL run together.
Notes	☛Gamber, CLLA 410.
Facsimile URL	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.257
Collection	Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
Last modified	25 March 2022