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• Naples Italy Biblioteca Nazionale IV. A. 8 (foll. 36–39) [palimpsest old]

Written doubtless in Italy. Rewritten at Bobbio in the eighth century. Fol. 38 contains the fifteenth-century ex-libris 'Liber scꞇi columbani [de bobio]'. For the later history of the MS see CLA 3.400.

Script is a stately uncial with some artificial features, as forked finials and hair-lines: uncial E is roundish and the hasta is above the middle; the two bows of uncial M are almost closed; N is broad, the two uprights being fine and the oblique stroke thick; the cross-stroke of T has a wedge-shaped thickening at both ends. A marginal rubric in excellent contemporary half-uncial occurs on fol. 39.

• Provenance: Bobbio library (Zironi 2004)
• Text: MSS with texts available in the Bobbio library during the Lombard period (Zironi, 2004)
• Script: MSS with sloping uncial, half-uncial, or quarter-uncial marginalia