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• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Coislinianus 186 (foll. 156–244)

Written manifestly in an important Western centre where Greek calligraphy was still practised. The manuscript was certainly in a French centre by the eighth century to judge by the probationes pennae. Once bound with Paris Lat. 10592, formerly Coislin 185, a manuscript annotated by Florus of Lyon (see CLA 5.602). Belonged to Pierre Séguier (†1672), then to de Coislin, Bishop of Metz (†1732), who gave his manuscripts to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, whence it came with other St Germain volumes to the Bibliothèque Nationale where its earlier press-mark was ‘Suppl. gr. 385’, entered on fol. 156.

Script is a bold and well-formed uncial on both Greek and Latin sides; some of the letters common to both alphabets are well differentiated, e.g. the N and P. Two interlinear corrections occur on fol. 169v. The marginal probatio pennae on fol. 175 is in French cursive saec. VIII; the one on fol. 181 in minuscule saec. VIII or IX reads: ‘in di nomen auderaradus rogetus scripsit’.

☛Formerly Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Suppl. grec 385 (foll. 156–244). ☛Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica, 1967, p. 106.

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