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Volume / Number: 10 / 1455

CLA 1455
Shelfmarks
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Script Uncial
Date V (401 - 500)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain, most likely Italy. Rewritten with Jerome on Ecclesiastes about the year 700, apparently at Luxeuil. For later history, see CLA 10.1454. The palimpsest was deciphered by Fredegar Mone.

CLA Vol. 10
TM Number TM 67642
Support Parchment
Contents Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia (11–15).
Script Commentary

Script is a neat, small, expert uncial of an old type: the first stroke of M is curved; various ligatures occur at line-end. Contemporary interlinear corrections in smaller uncial; the corrector entered his 'emendaui' in cursive at the end of Libb. 13–14 (cf. p. 93).

Notes

☛Formerly Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek 3, 1 (25.2.36; XXV.a.3) (p. A, 1–79, 88–259) [palimpsest old].

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