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• Monte Cassino Italy Archivio Della Badia 4

Written in Spain. The cursive marginal annotations contain the name of Ibinhamdon, who was evidently an adversary of the heretical archbishop Elipandus of Toledo (783–808). The name of Ibinhamdon occurs also in the marginalia of MS 19, described in the next item. The history of the migration of both these Visigothic MSS is probably the same. Read and annotated presumably at Monte Cassino towards the end of the eleventh century, as the Beneventan transliterations suggest.

Script is the low compact type of early Visigothic minuscule: i-longa occurs with fair regularity initially and medially when semi-vocal; no distinction is made between the hard and soft ti. Marginal notes and comments in almost contemporary Arabic and in Visigothic cursive, some of the latter having Beneventan transliteration saec. XI.