Volume / Number: 8 / 1050

• Berlin Germany Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz MS Lat. fol. 381 No. 1
• Hildesheim Germany Dombibliothek 658 (offset)

Written presumably in Italy. Belonged probably to Hildesheim cathedral library. The manuscript was not dismembered before the thirteenth century. The Hildesheim leaf, which survives only as an offset, was used in the binding of a theological manuscript saec. XIII given to the cathedral library by Rodolfus de Lewen in the fourteenth century. The Berlin fragment has been inaccessible since 1945.

Script is a bold, well-formed uncial: the lower bow of B is broad; the uprights of h and L are topped with a horizontal finial; S is top-heavy; the two branches of Y meet at the base-line. A thirteenth century hand annotated the illustrations.