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• Marburg Germany Westdeutsche Bibliothek MS Lat. Quarto 298

Written in Italy, to judge by the script. The date is determined by the contents. The two bifolia were used as fly-leaves and have left their offsets in the binding of a fifteenth-century canon law manuscript (now Zeitz, Stiftsbibliothek Fol. 33), once owned by Bishop Julius Pflugk of Naumburg and Zeitz (†1564) who had studied in Padua where he possibly acquired the book. The fragments were taken out and transferred to Berlin about 1862, then to the Westdeutsche Bibliothek in Marburg in 1949, and back to Berlin in 1992.

Script is expert uncial of the oldest type, penned in bold strokes which often fail to join: the eye of E is open and the hasta is high. An addition in smaller uncial on fol. 2v is apparently by the first hand.

☛Formerly Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. Lat. Quarto 298.

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