Volume / Number: 11 / 1669

• Split Croatia Chapter Archive MS 621

Origin uncertain; palaeographical considerations point to North Italy, where the manuscript must have remained at least until the eighth century.

Script, by several hands, is regular and careful half-uncial of a late type, with G regularly uncial: the bows of b, d, h, and m are well rounded, that of b is open; Rustic capitals are often used at line-ends when space is lacking. A later hand writing more or less the same type of half-uncial entered on fol. 246 the beginning of the Gospel of John in Greek, using Latin characters as does the scribe of the Verona Greco-Latin Psalter (CLA 4.472). Marginalia are of different periods: the oldest, liturgical in interest, seem of the North Italian type and date from saec. VIII in. (cf. foll. 2, 189v and 154v); the more recent entries are written in tenth- and eleventh-century Beneventan (foll. 82 and 245v) and in twelfth-century ordinary minuscule (fol. 246) and concern the ecclesiastical history of Spalato and Nona.

☛Formerly, Chapter Library sine numero. ☛McGurk, Gospel books no. 138. ☛Weber-Gryson, Vulgata MS P (Ev).

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• Script: MSS with sloping uncial, half-uncial, or quarter-uncial marginalia
• Text: MS witnesses to Weber-Gryson, Vulgata text (New Testament)