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Volume / Number: 8 / 1200

CLA 1200
Shelfmarks
  • Unknown Unknown Unknown now destroyed (1944)
Script Uncial
Date VI (501 - 600)
Origin and Provenance

Written presumably in Italy. Found at Schêkh 'Abâde near the ruins of Antinoë. Acquired by the Giessen Library in 1908. Disintegrated under water in 1945 after the destruction of the library in December 1944.

CLA Vol. 8
TM Number TM 61726
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Contents Testamentum Novum, Evangelium (Vetus Latina, Lc 23.2–6, 11–14, 24.5–9, 13–17, Gothice et Latine).
Script Commentary

The Latin script is uncial not of the oldest type: the eye of E is open and the hasta is almost in the middle; M is broad, with its middle stroke almost straight. The outside of the bifolium had numerous scribbles.

Notes

☛Formerly Giessen, Hochschulbibliothek 651/20. ☛Formerly Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek P. Giss. Bibl. 18.

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