Volume / Number: 9 / 1232
CLA | 1232 |
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Script | Pre-Caroline Minuscule |
Date | IX¹ (831 - 859) |
Origin and Provenance |
Written presumably in Northeast France, to judge from the script. The manuscript of the Vita was folded twice presumably to facilitate sending before being bound. |
CLA Vol. | 9 |
TM Number | TM 67373 |
Support | Parchment |
Contents | Alcuinus, Vita S Vedasti. |
Script Commentary |
Script is longish, somewhat slender minuscule of an early type: the tail of g is broad and open; ligatures include ct, ra, and rs. The uncial used in the headings is of a curious angular type suggesting Insular influence: the forms of R and T are noteworthy. |
Notes |
☛CLA date (VIII ex) changed to follow Bischoff, Mittelalterliche Studien 3 (1981), p. 12 n. 32. ☛Bischoff, Katalog 2 no. 2754. |
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Last modified | 25 July 2017 |