Volume / Number: 6 / 825

• Reims France Bibliothèque Municipale 1424
• Berlin Germany Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz Phillipps 1741 (foll. 209, 210)

Origin uncertain; the script and the peculiar -bus abbreviation favour Italy, but South France cannot be excluded. The Rheims leaf came from the binding of a Rheims manuscript which was rebound in 1847. The Berlin leaves are in a volume which originally belonged to the monastery of St Remi at Rheims, then to the Collège de Clermont at Paris. Acquired by Gerard Meerman in 1764, by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1824, and by the Berlin Library in 1887.

Script is an easy informal half-uncial verging on minuscule with some uncial admixture (F, G): the bow of a is often open; the base of b is conspicuously broad; the shaft of l bends near the line; the stems of b, d, h, and l are often looped; the bow of p is exaggerated and its stem ridiculously small. Noteworthy is the frequent use of u in ligature, even in the middle of a word.

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