Volume / Number: 9 / 1380

• Wolfenbüttel Germany Herzog August Bibliothek Helmst. 455 (fly-leaf).

Written in the same French centre with Celtic connections which produced Bern 207 + Paris Lat. 7520 (from Fleury). The ninth century volume to which our fragment is attached probably originated at Laon, to judge by an initial on fol. 138v, which shows inside the contemporary inscription 'ΔΙΔΩΝ·CΙΤ·ΟΗΡΑ·ΛΟΧ'; a bishop by the name of Dido presided over Laon between 882–893.

Script is a tiny and pointed mixed type of minuscule betraying distinct Insular influence and closely resembling the script of Bern 207 referred to above: a has two forms; g is Insular; r here and there approaches the Insular form; noteworthy are the numerous ligatures, some of which are typically Insular, including ho, ma, mo, ni, no, tio; a is found in ligature with following m, n, r.

☛Mostert, Fleury, BF1538.

• Provenance: Fleury library (Mostert 1989)