Volume / Number: S1 / 1864

• London United Kingdom Private Collection J. Paul Getty Jr. number unknown

Written presumably in Ireland. Found at Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library (X d 536) and auctioned at the Sotheby sale of 25 June 1985 (lot 50), where it was purchased by the British Rail Pension Fund and temporarily loaned to Dublin, Trinity College Library. Sold in 1988 to J. Paul Getty, Jr. (London).

Script is an elegantly and fluently written early lnsular half-uncial with both d and uncial d, both N and n, minuscule r and s; a once at line-end has a cursive form; the tongue of e is high; g ends with a small angle below the line; the first stroke of N is prolonged, the second almost rests on the line; the lower left limb of x is often long. Ligatures found are flat &, t with attached long j, once at line-end em with m turned sideways. A single minuscule m added by an Insular corrector.

☛A. Breen, ‘A New Irish Fragment of the Continuatio to Rufinus-Eusebius Historia Ecclesiastica’ Scriptorium 41 (1987) 185–204.