Volume / Number: S1 / 1856

• Paris France Institut Catholique de Paris MS Lat. 55

Written in North ltaly, possibly at Ravenna. Formerly used as part of a wrapper for a printed edition of Simplicius’s commentary on the Praedicamenta of Aristotle (Venice, 1543) that belonged to M. l’abbé Jean-Marie Charles Bulliot (†1915) and was acquired in 1921.

Script is a careful half-uncial resembling the Ravenna manuscript of Ambrose (Archivio Arcivescovile S.N., CLA 4.410a-b): A and G exhibit the uncial form; D has both the uncial and half-uncial forms, the former predominating; the cross-strokes of F resemble two commas placed one on top of the other; i-longa appears initially, and medially for the semi-vocal sound; uncial M occurs once at the end of a word; the shaft of p ends in a swing to the right.

☛G. Lanoë, ‘Catalogue des manuscrits latins conservés à la Bibliothèque de l’Institut catholique de Paris’ Revue d’histoire des textes 31 (2003) p. 356.