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CLA 283
Shelfmarks
  • Brescia Italy Biblioteca Queriniana H. VI. 11 (fly-leaves)
Script Uncial
Date V (401 - 500)
Origin and Provenance

Written doubtless in Italy, to judge from the script. Used as fly-leaves to a MS Ordinarium sive Chronica Officiorum Totius Anni 1438 in Italian Gothic written for the monastery of S Giulia, Brescia. The fly-leaves were removed ca. 1860.

CLA Vol. 3
TM Number TM66392
Support Parchment
Contents Cyprianus, Testimonia (Ad Quirinum, fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is a beautiful uncial of the oldest type: the bow of uncial A is pointed; the hasta of uncial E is high; G has a tiny tag instead of a tail; L has hardly any base; the bows of uncial Q and R are small. Two interlinear corrections in tiny uncial on pages 2 and 7.

Last modified 22 June 2017