Volume / Number: 11 / 1656

• New York, N. Y. USA Pierpont Morgan Library Amherst Gr. 26

Written doubtless in Egypt. Formerly in the collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney.

Script of the Latin, by the same hand as the Greek, is the later Roman cursive in its incipient stage: a and squeezed o show distinct Greek influence; c is made of two curved strokes one above the other, this form later enters Beneventan and other minuscule scripts; g has several forms; s often consists of two intersecting arcs; the top of t is a straight horizontal, a Greek trait; u is broad and angular.

☛Formerly Norfolk, Private collection Amherst number unknown.