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Volume / Number: 10 / 1475

CLA 1475
Shelfmarks
  • Vienna Austria Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Lat. 313
  • Munich Germany Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29270/1 [palimpsest new]
Script Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written no doubt at Salzburg. The fragments were formerly fly-leaves in MS 29 of the Salzburg cathedral library (now Vienna MS 709), a twelfth-century copy of St Jerome's letters.

CLA Vol. 10
TM Number TM 67661
Support Parchment
Contents Maximus Victorinus, De Ratione Metrorum (fragm.); Metrorius, De Finalibus Syllabis (fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is a somewhat compressed, graceful minuscule closely akin to that of Munich CLM 5508 and 16128 (CLA 9.1247, 1313), Vienna Lat. 366 (CLA 10.1476) and others; Insular influence appears in the peculiar form of the ti ligature; both the Caroline a and the open a are used.

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