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Volume / Number: 9 / 1417

CLA 1417
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  • Würzburg Germany Universitätsbibliothek M. P. Th. F. 62
Script Insular Minuscule
Date VIII med (726 - 775)
Origin and Provenance

Written by a scribe trained in the pure Insular tradition, to judge by the script and decoration, possibly while on a visit to Rome to judge by the contents. Belonged to the Würzburg Cathedral Library, where the manuscript bore the numbers 'XIC' and '36'.

CLA Vol. 9
TM Number TM 67556
Support Parchment
Contents Capitulare Lectionum Wirceburgense.
Script Commentary

Script is a slender, somewhat angular, rapid Insular minuscule: c is often tall and closed; g in ligature with following i or n resembles an elongated s; numerous other ligatures.

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