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Volume / Number: 9 / 1327

CLA 1327
Shelfmarks
  • Munich Germany Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29216/7
Script Pre-Caroline Minuscule
Date VIII ex (776 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain, presumably North Italy. The leaves were used as fly-leaves in a twelfth-century Tegernsee manuscript (CLM 19479).

CLA Vol. 9
TM Number TM 65877
Support Parchment
Contents Vergilius, Aeneis (5.704–25, 737–58, 6.40–57, 75–90).
Script Commentary

Script is an early minuscule recalling Italian types: the eye of e rises above the head-line and resembles the Beneventan form; the shoulder of r curves upwards and extends over the following letter; there is a slight resemblance to London Cotton Nero A. II (CLA 2.186).

Notes

☛Formerly Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29005/18. ☛Bischoff, Südostdeutschen Schreibschulen 1 p. 165. ☛Bischoff, Katalog 2 no. 3352.

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