Volume / Number: 3 / 323b

• Milan Italy Biblioteca Ambrosiana C. 105 inf. (foll. 1–135, 137–139, 150, 154–157)

Written probably at Bobbio. The Rhythmus Longobardicus of the year 698, entered by the scribe in the blank portion of fol. 121–121v, was also entered by him in the Bobbio MS Ambros. E. 147 sup. (see CLA 3.**26b + c).

Script is a crude minuscule based on cursive, in part perhaps under the influence of the Luxeuil type (see fol. 29), letters mostly leaning to the left: a in combination is suprascript; d has two forms; the shaft of h often bends backward; the long form of i is frequent initially (even 'Illum'); the form of ri in ligature is curious; superior u is now s-like, now cup-shaped.

☛CLA 4 p. VI, 'It is open to dispute whether items 3.323b and 4.512 should be called 'pre-Caroline minuscule' rather than 'cursive minuscule.''

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• Provenance: Bobbio library (Zironi 2004)
• Text: MSS with texts available in the Bobbio library during the Lombard period (Zironi, 2004)