Volume / Number: 3 / 393

• Naples Italy Biblioteca Nazionale Lat. 2 (foll. 37–41) [palimpsest old 2]

Written most likely in Italy. The ancient leaves were re-used at Bobbio in the eighth century to copy patristic treatises. For the later history of the MS see previous CLA 3.391.

Script is a natural but somewhat irregular uncial not of the oldest type: the bow of uncial A is pointed; the lower bow of B is mostly open; the hasta of uncial E is high and the eye is mostly closed; the two bows of uncial M seem to pull apart; R descends below the line; CI at line-ends are joined so that they resemble uncial q.

☛Formerly Vienna, Hofbibliothek 16 (foll. 37–41) [palimpsest old 2].

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