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Volume / Number: 9 / 1351

CLA 1351
Shelfmarks
  • Pommersfelden Germany Bibliothek Graf von Schönborn PPL 1–6
Script Uncial
Date VI (501 - 600)
Origin and Provenance

Written in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Later history unknown; the fragments were discovered at Pommersfelden by Savigny before 1822.

CLA Vol. 9
TM Number TM 61412
Support Papyrus
Contents Iustiniani Digesta (45.1.35–43, 71–73, fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is a large uncial of the type encountered in several legal manuscripts of which the Florentine Digests (CLA 3.295) is the chief representative: the most characteristic letters are the tall B and the R with its final stroke horizontal and almost on the base-line.

Notes

☛Arguing for origin in the East: A. J. B. Sirks, P. J. Sijpesteijn and K. A. Worp, Ei n frühbyzantinisches Szenario für die Amtswechslung in der Sitonie (1996), p. 137–142; S. Ammirati, JJP 40 (2010), p. 85.

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