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• Dublin Ireland Chester Beatty Library 5
• Rome Italy Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vitt. Eman. 1357

Written in Italy, probably at Nonantola. Was certainly at Nonantola by the ninth century. Migrated to Santa Croce, Rome, in the seventeenth century. Stolen during the Napoleonic period. Later acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps, in whose library at Cheltenham it had the number 12264. Acquired by Mr A. Chester Beatty in 1924.

Script is a not very calligraphic, Italian pre-Caroline minuscule: c often has the broken form; i-longa is not used regularly; the two forms of ti are used indifferently for the soft and hard sound; other constant ligatures with i are fi, ri; the te ligature is frequent.

☛Originally London Chester Beatty Collection 5.