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CLA 37
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  • Vatican City Italy Biblioteca del Vaticano Lat. 5759 (foll. 56–63, 106–113) [palimpsest]
Script Uncial
Date VIII (701 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in North Italy, presumably at Bobbio. The main MS was No. 34 in the inventory of 1461; on fol. 1 occurs the Bobbio ex-libris. Erased dedication to Bobbio in verse on fol. 105v.

CLA Vol. 1
TM Number TM 66132
Support Parchment
Contents Juvencus, Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor (1.615–76, 719-70, 2.1-8, 93–224, 633–57, 797–820, 3. 36–60, 107–29).
Script Commentary

End of each verse marked by an ivy leaf. One title and many initial letters in hollow artificial capitals filled with red, yellow, and green. The main MS, of which these sixteen scraped leaves were apparently intended to form a part, contains Ambrosius De Isaac et Anima, etc., in ordinary minuscule saec. X.

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