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Volume / Number: 8 / 1211

CLA 1211
Shelfmarks
  • Halberstadt Germany Domschatz 465 [palimpsest new]
Script Half-Uncial
Date VII–VIII (680 - 720)
Origin and Provenance

Written presumably in North Italy, to judge by the script. Found in the binding of Halberstadt MS 22, a medical miscellany saec. XIV containing lecture notes from Montpellier, etc.

CLA Vol. 8
TM Number TM 67350
Support Parchment
Contents Ps- Apuleius, De Herbis.
Script Commentary

Script is half-uncial slightly reminiscent of Verona 33 (31) (CLA 4.492): a is open; g is regularly uncial, other letters like d occasionally; y is short and dotted. The names of the plants illustrated were added in the late thirteenth century.

Last modified 17 May 2019