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• Verona Italy Biblioteca Capitolare CLXIII (150)

Origin uncertain, presumably Verona, to judge by the presence of the same script in the Verona Hilary and Leonian Sacramentary, two MSS whose connection with Verona in the eighth century cannot be doubted. It was presented to the Chapter Library by Scipione Maffei. Removed by Napoleon and restored in 1815.

Script is an inexpert, individual pre-Caroline minuscule, the most distinctive feature being the backward slope of h and i-longa: a resembles contiguous oc; the back of c has often a curious tag; d is regularly uncial; g is half-uncial; i-longa is the rule initially; the ligature ti is used indifferently for soft and hard ti. This type of script, perhaps by the same scribe, is to be seen in the marginalia of two Verona MSS: XIII (11) and LXXXV (80), CLA 4.484, 514.