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• Verona Italy Biblioteca Capitolare LXI (59)

Written in North Italy, most likely at Verona, and apparently from a Spanish archetype, to judge from subject matter, certain abbreviations, and the type of abbreviation-stroke used by one of the scribes.

The uncial script is particularly irregular and ungainly: the bow of A is horizontal and lifted; the last stroke of N is comma-like and cuts the oblique above the base-line; the top of T is yoke-like; FF and LL run together; the contemporary half-uncial at the end (foll. 69–76) is expert and calligraphic: d and g are both uncial and half-uncial; m is invariably uncial; z resembles Arabic 2; the chief characteristic of the script is the angularity of certain round letters, recalling Insular calligraphy. Fol. 1v, originally blank, has been filled by two hands writing early minuscule saec. VIII, probably at Verona. There are also notes by hands of the school of Pacificus (†846), if not by Pacificus himself.