Volume / Number: 8 / 1166

• Cologne Germany Historisches Archiv GB Kasten B 130 [palimpsest new]
• Münster Germany Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek 718m (1186) [palimpsest new]

Written apparently in Italy, to judge from the script. The Cologne folio served as front fly-leaf in a manuscript of Hugh of St Victor, etc., which belonged to the monastery of Gross-Sankt-Martin in Cologne: the entry 'Liber sancti Martini maioris in Colonia’ (saec. XV) stands on the recto. The Münster leaves were given to the University Library in 1932 by Professor Sonnenberg; they perished on Palm Sunday, 1945.

Script is a vigorous, but not very regular uncial of a late type, with long ascenders and descenders: the first bow of M is often constricted; the second upright of N is here and there comma-shaped; LL run together.