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CLA 279
Shelfmarks
  • Assisi Italy Biblioteca Comunale S Francesco 585 [palimpsest old]
Script Uncial
Date VIII ex (788 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written probably in North or Central Italy after 787, the date when the History of the Lombards was completed. Rewritten most likely at Assisi. On fol. 4 is a late ex-libris (saec. XVII): 'Bibliotecae Sacri Conventus Assisiensis'. The MS was removed from the Sacro Convento to the Biblioteca Comunale in 1884. Repaired at Grotta Ferrata in 1936.

CLA Vol. 3
TM Number TM 66388
Support Parchment
Contents Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum.
Script Commentary

Script is a small uncial of a late type: the bow of uncial A is roundish; the base of L has a vertical finial; the bow of R is low; the top of T has two downward finials.

Notes

☛Primary script of palimpsest 8 foll. ☛C. Cenci, Bibliotheca manuscripta ad sacrum conventum assisiensem 2 1917 bis (p. 540–41).

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