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• London United Kingdom British Library Add. MS 17212 (foll. 1–8, 10–13) [palimpsest old]

Written in all probability in Italy. First used for rewriting in the seventh century, apparently in North Italy, and again in the tenth century in the near East. Found in the monastery of S Maria Deipara in the Nitrian desert, Egypt (many of the Syriac MSS in that monastery came from Nisibis). Acquired by the British Museum in 1847.

Script is a small, neatly formed, very ancient type of uncial not unlike that of the Bamberg Livy fragments: the upper bow of B is a mere dot, the eye of uncial E is open, the tail of G is barely indicated, N is broad, the bow of P is open.

☛P. De Paolis, Manuscripts and Tradition of Grammatical Texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Cassino 2000, pp. 201–21. ☛Lowe, Palaeographical Papers 2, pl. 115.