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• Milan Italy Archivio Civico Storico Trivulziano 688

Written in North Italy, by order of a bishop called Titus, as we learn from the scribe's note in fancy coloured capitals on fol. 246: 'SUMMUS ET ALMIFICUS DOM ET UB TITO PRAESUL (UOCATUS EPS inserted above the line) HUNC LIBR SUO PRAECEP FIERI TEMPORE.' Titus is probably to be identified with the bishop of Novara who flourished in the second half of the eighth century.

Script is an ungainly, inexpert minuscule with various cursive elements: a has two forms ('oc' a and a), e often has a little tag to the left, and when followed by m or n the upper loop rises above the line; the long form of i is nearly always used initially; uncial S slips in here and there; ligatures with t are requent; the nt ligature occurs even in the middle of a word; the ligature ti is used indifferently for hard and soft ti.

☛Steffens, Paléographie latine, Pl. 42.