Volume / Number: 4 / 505

CLA	505
Shelfmarks	Verona Italy Biblioteca Capitolare LII (50)
Script	Early Mixed Minuscule
Date	VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance	Written presumably in some Burgundian centre, to judge by the minuscule script on foll. 7–8 and by the textual affinities of the Regula. The MS must have reached Verona soon after it was written: on fol. 266v are two notes in the hand of Pacificus (†846). Some initials in the Liber Pontificalis and the use of uncial ꝺ, N, R, and S in a minuscule script suggest an Insular exemplar.
CLA Vol.	4
TM Number	TM 66612
Support	Parchment
Contents	Liber Pontificalis (epitome); Testamentum Novum, Epistulae Pauli (Vulgata, 2 Th); Isidorus, Contra Iudaeos (29); Regula S Benedicti; Itinerarium Burdigalense; Gregorius Magnus, Sermones (De Adventu Domini, In Natale Confessorum); Augustinus, Sermones (In Theophaniam, 160, 168, 184, 200); Maximus Taurinensis, Sermones; Isidorus, Sermones (De Passione Domini, In Evangelia); Damasus Papa, Epistula.
Script Commentary	Script is a curious type of early minuscule of a transitional stage; the striking feature being the use of uncial ꝺ, N, R, and S in a minuscule alphabet; ri in ligature is the rule. The scribe who continues the text from the middle of line 2 on fol. 7 to fol. 8 writes a Burgundian pre-Caroline minuscule with a curious abbreviation and m-stroke shaped like a leaning c, also seen in Autun MSS 4, 20 A, 21 (+ Paris, Nouv. Acq. Lat. 1628) and 23.
Collections	Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels) Text: MSS containing exegetical works Origin: Burgundia Scripta (Barbet-Massin, Bully, Gasse-Grandjean)
Last modified	19 July 2022