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• Ivrea Italy Biblioteca Capitolare 1 (I)

Written in France, doubtless in the region which produced such MSS as the Luxeuil lectionary (Paris Lat. 9427) and the MS of Gregory’s Moralia (see CLA 2.163). The MS opens with the two acrostics on fol. 1v entered by the original hand in alternate red and green capitals: DESIDERIUS PAPA and VIVAT DEO. The volume was destined, then, for a bishop Desiderius. A bishop of that name ruled the see of Ivrea towards the end of the seventh century, a date congruous with the palaeography of the MS. On fol. 2v a ninth or tenth-century entry reads ‘Multos annos petronem diaconum deus conseruet Amen’. The MS was repaired in the Vatican Library in 1913.

Script is an excellent example of the ‘Luxeuil’ type of minuscule written by an expert hand: letters lean slightly to the left; the ti ligature is used indifferently for the soft and the hard sound; uncial is used for the capitula on foll. 2v–3v, and 54–55v. An entry in Italian cursive saec. VIII is seen on the last page.

☛CLA date (VII–VIII) changed to follow Ganz, Luxeuil (ca. 680), who notes three scribes. ☛Tewes, Luxeuil No. 5, agrees with Ganz’s date. ☛Index Tironianorum.

• Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
• Origin: Luxeuil—MSS from the school of Luxeuil (Tewes 2011)
• CLA information changed
• Script: MSS with reverse beta ti ligature
• Origin: Burgundia Scripta (Barbet-Massin, Bully, Gasse-Grandjean)