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CLA 454
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  • Turin Italy Biblioteca Nazionale Cod. 882 N. 8
Script Insular Majuscule
Date VIII in (701 - 725)
Origin and Provenance

Written doubtless in Ireland. Liturgically the MS is very similar to the Bangor Antiphonary, Milan, Ambros. C. 5 inf. (CLA 3.311) and has probably had a similar history.

CLA Vol. 4
TM Number TM 66561
Support Parchment
Contents Antiphonarium Celticum.
Script Commentary

Script is a rather coarse Irish majuscule by a not very expert scribe: d, n are minuscule; R is regularly uncial; S has both uncial and half-uncial forms; Y is typically Irish, with both branches curving to the right. Some notes in Old-Irish.

Notes

☛Formerly Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale F.IV.1 Fragm. 9.

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