Volume / Number: 3 / 370

• Modena Italy Archivio Capitolare O. I 17

Written in Italy, doubtless in the North, to judge by the resemblance to certain Bobbio hands. The date probably falls 760–778, which is the first of a series of 19-year cycles inserted on foll. 104v–105v.

Script is a neat, rapid minuscule by a fairly expert hand, apparently modelled upon the type seen in the Bobbio MSS Ambros. L 99 sup. and Naples Lat. 1 (CLA 3.353, 388): G has regularly the uncial form, as in Visigothic minuscule; the shoulder of r rises above the line, a North Italian characteristic; i-longa is regularly used initially, and medially for the semi-vocal sound; the ti ligature is used for both the hard and soft sound; ligatures ati and ui are characteristic, the latter resembling a tall ⁊. Some corrections and marginalia in ninth-century minuscule recall the Nonantola type (foll. 65v, 66, 66v).

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