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Volume / Number: 10 / 1494

CLA 1494
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  • Vienna Austria Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Lat. 964
Script Caroline Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written presumably at Salzburg by scribes imported by Archbishop Arno from St Amand. Was certainly in Salzburg by the ninth century, as shown by corrections. The manuscript belonged to the Salzburg cathedral library: the fifteenth-century press-mark '144' is still seen on the front cover.

CLA Vol. 10
TM Number TM 67682
Support Parchment
Contents Isidorus, Liber Prooemiorum, Allegoriae, De Orthographia; Eucherius, Solutiones; Hieronymus, Epistulae (Ad Sunnniam et Fretellam), Expositiones in Ezechielem.
Script Commentary

Script, by several scribes, is a well-formed early Caroline minuscule of North French type: a and d are the rule; ligatures include fr, ge, rp, US. Corrections by various ninth-century Salzburg scribes, among them probably the scholasticus Baldo. A table of contents (saec. XV) on fol. 1v.

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