Volume / Number: S / 1711

• Oxford United Kingdom Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms P. Ant. 152

Written in an important centre of legal studies in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, probably at Byzantium. Found at Antinoë.

Script is bold, roundish uncial of the distinct type of which the most noted representative is the Florentine Digests (CLA 3.295) and which is seen in a number of other legal manuscripts (cf. CLA 12.1723); the characteristic letters are tall B and R with the bow descending to the base-line and the final stroke approaching the horizontal. Extensive marginalia in a much smaller and finer script by the same hand: d, r, and ꞅ have the half-uncial forms; the top stroke of ꞅ is a pronounced curve resembling a comma, a feature also occurring in one hand of the Florentine Digests referred to above and earlier in the Fragmentum de Formula Fabiana, in the Oxyrhynchus papyrus of Terence, and in a parchment fragment from Antinoë (CLA 8.1042, 10.**1042, and 12.1717 and 1712).

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• Script: MSS with sloping uncial, half-uncial, or quarter-uncial marginalia