Volume / Number: S / 1740

• Oxford United Kingdom Bodleian Library MS. e Museo 66 [S.C. 3655]

Written probably in North Italy, to judge by the script and general palaeographical considerations, but France is not to be excluded. Given to the Bodleian Library by Alexander Fetherston, vicar of Wolverton, Bucks., in 1680. The binding of white leather over boards dates from the fifteenth century.

Script, by an expert scribe, is small rapid half-uncial or quarter-uncial verging on minuscule: ascenders are club-shaped or looped; letters are unequal in height; a and o are small, cursive vestiges; c often rises above small letters; Ᵹ and ꞅ are notably graceful; i-longa is used initially and medially for the yod-sound (cuIus); i is also long after r, a sign of antiquity; n is almost invariably minuscule; the bow of q forms a small oval; the top of ꞇ is curved; y is very short, undotted, and stands on the line; ligatures with e are common.

☛Lowe, Palaeographical Papers 1 p. 345–7.