Volume / Number: 4 / 436a

CLA	436a
Shelfmarks	Sarezzano Italy Biblioteca Parrocchiale without number (foll. 1–64)
Script	Uncial
Date	VI in (501 - 525)
Origin and Provenance	Written presumably in North Italy. Found by Abbot Amelli in 1872 at the church of Sarezzano near Tortona in Piedmont, where it had been preserved in a wooden box as a relic of a S Rufinus, to whom the writing is ascribed in a document of 1585. After brief sojourns in Florence, Milan, Turin, Monte Cassino, and Rome it returned in 1934 to its former home.
CLA Vol.	4
TM Number	TM 66542
Support	Parchment
Contents	Testamentum Novum, Evangelia (Vetus Latina, Lc 24, 38–42, 49–53, Io 1.1–11, 18–19).
Name	Codex Sarzanensis.
Script Commentary	Script is very regular, but slightly ornate uncial; the bow of A is compressed; the hasta of E is in the centre; the axis of O is upright as in Greek uncial. Notae Tironianae and a marginal note in North Italian cursive saec. VII or VIII occur on fol. 30v.
Notes	☛Codex purpureus. ☛Index Tironianorum.
Collections	Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels) Text: MSS containing Gospel text
Last modified	19 April 2022