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CLA 226
Shelfmarks
  • Manchester United Kingdom John Rylands Library Gr. 477
Script Early Half-Uncial
Date IV–V (380 - 420)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain. Found at Oxyrhynchus or in the Fayum. Acquired by the John Rylands Library in 1920.

CLA Vol. 2
TM Number TM 59459
Support Papyrus
Contents Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium (33–37, 44–46), cum versione Graeca et scholiis Graecis et Latinis.
Script Commentary

Script is a well-developed half-uncial except for uncial A, which is uncial with bow long and flattened. Marginalia both in Greek and in Latin, including a Greek rendering of Cicero's text; the Latin marginalia are in a sloping half-uncial with cursive elements.

Notes

☛CLA first-edition date (V) changed to follow second edition. ☛Seider, Paläographie. II.1 no. 48, pl. XXVII.

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