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Volume / Number: 8 / **813

CLA **813
Shelfmarks
  • Orléans France Médiathèque 192 (169) (foll. 29–30)
  • Karlsruhe Germany Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsr. 339 fr. 2
Script Uncial
Date VI¹ (501 - 550)
Origin and Provenance

Written doubtless in Italy, to judge from script and parchment. Provenance Fleury on the Loire: the Orléans bifolium was removed from the binding of Orléans MS 18 (15), which comes from Fleury. The history of the Karlsruhe fragment is not known.

CLA Vol. 8
TM Number TM 67215
Support Parchment
Contents Hieronymus, Epistulae (Ad Tyrasium, Ad Marcellam).
Script Commentary

Script is excellent uncial by an expert scribe: the bow of A is small and oval; M and N are broad; the bow of R is low; the top of T often ends in slight thickenings; LL occasionally run together; letters do not stand on the ruled line but seem cut by it.

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