Skip to content

Volume / Number: 8 / 1081

CLA 1081
Shelfmarks
  • Karlsruhe Germany Badische Landesbibliothek Aug. 112 (foll. 7–9, 14–33, 35, 38, 40, 43–46) [palimpsest old]
Script Alemannic Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written doubtless in a centre of calligraphy in the Lake Constance region, probably at Reichenau. Was still unfinished when used shortly afterwards for rewriting with grammatical and other texts, presumably at Reichenau. The volume with the secondary script is mentioned in the Reichenau catalogue of the year 822.

CLA Vol. 8
TM Number TM 67221
Support Parchment
Contents Sacramentarium Gelasiano-Gregorianum (fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script, by at least two scribes, is broad Alemannic minuscule of the type found in the Lake Constance region: ligatures include ant, xp (in xpm).

Notes

☛Y. Hen, Liturgical palimpsests, Bibliologia 26, 2007, p. 49 no. 1. ☛Bischoff, Katalog 1 no. 1643.

Facsimile URL
Collection
Last modified 17 May 2019