Volume / Number: 3 / 318

• Milan Italy Biblioteca Ambrosiana C. 77 Sup. [palimpsest old]

Written doubtless in North Italy, perhaps at Verona. Used for rewriting at Bobbio saec. VIII; for its later history see preceding item.

Script is a careful, though not very expert, half-uncial of an old type: the form of uncial A is often almost uncial; the loop of e is closed; the bow of Ᵹ is well rounded, but barely descends below the line; the oblique stroke of N is thin, the uprights are thick; the shoulder of r descends considerably; ꞇ resembles c with an approach stroke; altogether there is a resemblance to the script of Verona 55 (53). Marginalia in small contemporary half-uncial are seen on foll. 116 and 127.

• Provenance: Bobbio library (Zironi 2004)
• Text: MSS with texts available in the Bobbio library during the Lombard period (Zironi, 2004)
• Script: MSS with sloping uncial, half-uncial, or quarter-uncial marginalia