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Volume / Number: 3 / 309

CLA 309
Shelfmarks
  • Milan Italy Biblioteca Ambrosiana B. 159 Sup.
Script Uncial
Date VIII med (726 - 775)
Origin and Provenance

Origin Bobbio. According to the long colophon on foll. 241v–242 the MS was written by the scribe Georgio for Abbot Anastasius, whose name occurs in a charter of the year 749. The usual Bobbio ex-libris and the number 77 are seen on fol. 1; another ex-libris occurs on fol. 7. Entered the Ambrosian Library in 1606.

CLA Vol. 3
TM Number TM 66406
Support Parchment
Contents Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Iob.
Script Commentary

Script is a characteristic but not very expert uncial: noteworthy are the with its horizontal finial, the N with the comma-like third stroke joining the middle stroke well above the base-line, the X with the second stroke like reversed s; Y is dotted; LL run together; many thick down strokes end in a hair-line.

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