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Volume / Number: 7 / 939

CLA 939
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  • Sankt Gallen Switzerland Stiftsbibliothek 350
Script Rhaetian Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written in the Rhaetian scriptorium that produced the famous Gelasian Sacramentary, St Gall MS 348 (CLA 7.936), most probably Chur. Later history unknown.

CLA Vol. 7
TM Number TM 67083
Support Parchment
Contents Sacramentarium Gelasianum (fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is a roundish, typical Rhaetian minuscule resembling Beneventan and Visigothic in its forms of a and t; the uncial form of a is also used; g is longish, the top forms a closed loop to the left; z has a striking form going far below the line; ti ligature is used for hard ti; the form of uncial N is noteworthy.

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