Volume / Number: 7 / **604b

CLA	**604b
Shelfmarks	Bern Switzerland Burgerbibliothek 611 (foll. 20–41)
Script	Pre-Caroline Minuscule and Cursive Minuscule
Date	VIII¹ (701 - 750)
Origin and Provenance	Written apparently in East France. For later history see preceding item.
CLA Vol.	7
TM Number	TM 67006
Support	Parchment
Contents	Isidorus, Etymologiae (epitome); Heraclides Eremita, Paradisus (epitome).
Script Commentary	Script is a rather rapid pre-Caroline minuscule of French type, with numerous ligatures: c is often tall as in Merovingian charter-hand; N is frequent; i after r regularly has the long form as in Merovingian charters. The scribe of the crowded cursive minuscule seen on the lower half of foll. 40v, 41, and 41v also wrote foll. 138v–140 (see CLA **604d).
Facsimile URL	https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bbb/0611
Collection	Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
Last modified	23 August 2017