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CLA 373
Shelfmarks
  • Monte Cassino Italy Archivio Della Badia 19
Script Visigothic Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written in Spain, probably in the same scriptorium as Monte Cassino 4: the two MSS have probably had the same history (see preceding item). Retouched by an eleventh-century Beneventan hand, presumably at Monte Cassino.

CLA Vol. 3
TM Number TM 66474
Support Parchment
Contents Augustinus, De Trinitate.
Script Commentary

Script is the low compact type of early Visigothic minuscule by two hands, the more skilful recalling the scribe of Monte Cassino 4 (see preceding item): d has two forms; u is often suprascript; i-longa is used with regularity both initially (even 'Ille') and medially when semi-vocal; no distinction is made between the soft and hard sound of ti. Marginalia in contemporary Visigothic occur passim; a few notes are in Arabic (p. 79, 97, 222).

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