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• Karlsruhe Germany Badische Landesbibliothek Aug. 57

Written doubtless in North Italy, to judge from palaeographical features; the abbreviation for misericordia suggests the Verona area. Later at Reichenau: the fifteenth-century ex-libris 'Lib' mon augie maioris' stands on fol. 1.

Script, by several hands, is a curious, uncalligraphic pre-Caroline minuscule of a North Italian type: a has various forms, occurring even sickle-shaped and suprascript (ma, fol. 17); the hasta of f is low and runs along the base-line; g is half-uncial, only rarely uncial; i-longa is frequent; the shoulder of r extends over the following letter; uncial R occurs; large uncial A in headings or first lines has a triangular leaf-like bow. Numerous ligatures in combination with e and t: nt with t reduced to an oblique line; ti ligature for hard and soft ti; noteworthy are the characteristically North Italian ss resembling conjoint ns, st with the top of t oblique, and ce with the head of c lowered to hold the e. A calendar table in minuscule saec. IX is seen on fol. 90v. A fifteenth-century hand noted a number of abbreviation-symbols formed with q in red chalk on fol. 90 (= p. 181).