Volume / Number: 4 / 445
CLA | 445 |
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Script | Rustic Capital |
Date | V–VI (480 - 520) |
Origin and Provenance |
Written no doubt in Italy. Re-used in the early eighth century, presumably at Bobbio, to make a restoration in Turin G. V. 37, a MS of Cyprian described below (CLA 4.464). Separated from this MS by A. Peyron, the discoverer of the palimpsest. Destroyed by fire in 1904. |
CLA Vol. | 4 |
TM Number | TM 66552 |
Support | Parchment |
Contents | Cicero, In Verrem (2.1.17.44–45). |
Script Commentary |
Script is calligraphic Rustic capital: the end of G curls in; the first and last strokes of M are oblique; N is broad; U has the uncial form; US in ligature at line-end. |
Notes |
☛Formerly Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale A.II.2 (fol. 113) [palimpsest old]. |
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Last modified | 30 April 2019 |