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Volume / Number: 6 / 755

CLA 755
Shelfmarks
  • Colmar France Bibliothèque Municipale 82 b (binding)
Script Pre-Caroline Minuscule
Date VIII ex (776 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain. Presumably a Germanic centre like Murbach where our leaves were used for binding purposes in the fifteenth century. They had previously suffered from damp.

CLA Vol. 6
TM Number TM 66925
Support Parchment
Contents Testamentum Novum, Epistulae Pauli (Vulgata, Rm 1–5, fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is a graceful pre-Caroline minuscule somewhat recalling other Murbach manuscripts: open a is the rule; N occurs here and there; the top of loops to the left; ri, ro, te occur in ligatures.

Notes

☛Bischoff, Katalog 1 no. 955.

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Last modified 31 July 2017