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Volume / Number: 11 / 1632

CLA 1632
Shelfmarks
  • San Lorenzo Spain El Escorial R.II.18 (foll. 1–8, 25–34, 59, 66, 83–91, 95) [palimpsest old]
Script Uncial
Date VII (601 - 700)
Origin and Provenance

Written in Spain to judge by script and abbreviations. Rewritten and used for the restoration and expansion of a seventh-century manuscript of Isidore in the ninth century; the name of 'EULOGIUS PECCATOR' entered in the centre of a diagram on fol. 6v most likely refers to Eulogius of Cordova. For later history see the preceding item.

CLA Vol. 11
TM Number TM 67798
Support Parchment
Contents Testamentum Vetus, Octateuchus (Vulgata, Gn, Ex, Lv, Nm, Dt, Ios, Idc, Rt, fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is uncial of a later type with some Spanish features: ascenders, descenders, and the stem of are long; i-longa is used initially; the upper curve of S is compressed; v-shaped U occurs suprascript.

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Last modified 29 July 2017