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Volume / Number: 10 / 1458

CLA 1458
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Script Pre-Caroline Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written apparently in Switzerland or South Germany, to judge by the script. Belonged to Reichenau. Acquired for St Blasien in the Black Forest by Abbot Martin Gerbert 1768–1781. Transferred to St Paul in 1807.

CLA Vol. 10
TM Number TM 67645
Support Parchment
Contents Isidorus, Liber Prooemiorum; Ps- Isidorus, De Ortu et Obitu Patrum.
Script Commentary

Script is a pre-Caroline minuscule recalling Swiss types: open a is the rule, a the exception; both and d are found; h occasionally has a curved shaft; the top of loops to the left, as in Alemannic minuscule; ligatures include an, ro. A tenth-century hand entered prayers from a litany (fol. 79v).

Notes

☛Formerly Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek 9, 1 (25.1.35; XXV.a.9).

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