Volume / Number: 8 / 1059

• Berlin Germany Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz Phillipps 1735

Written presumably in Burgundy, to judge from the script and abbreviation-mark. Later in the Jesuit Collège de Clermont. Entered the Meerman collection in 1764 and that of Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1824. Acquired by the Berlin Royal Library in 1887.

Script is a pre-Caroline minuscule of Burgundian type (cf. MSS Autun 19A, 20A + Troyes 657, Autun 23, and Cologne 76; CLA 6.718, 6.720, 6.723, and 8.1153): ascenders and descenders are long and betray an unsteady hand; open a is more frequent than a; e is tall and has a knob-like forestroke; the top-stroke of h is curved; the top of ꞇ forms a loop to the left; m occasionally is uncial; ti ligature occurs for hard and soft ti. Some ninth-century entries on fol. 1.

☛Bischoff, Katalog 1 no. 418.

• Origin: Burgundia Scripta (Barbet-Massin, Bully, Gasse-Grandjean)