Volume / Number: 5 / 526

• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 298 (Codex Bigotianus)
• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 281

Written in England, to judge by script, abbreviation, manner of pricking, and kind of membranes used. The manuscript belongs textually to the Anglo-Saxon group. Was in the Abbey Church of La Trinité at Fécamp in Normandy: on fol. 1v of MS 298 (originally the last page) stands the fifteenth- or late fourteenth-century ex-libris, now in part illegible: 'Iste liber est de ecclesia sancte Trinitatis Fiscannensis.' Bought in the seventeenth century by Jean Bigot in whose collection it bore the number 5; it later bore the number 3706.2 in the Royal collection.

Script is a bold, skilfully formed, large, roundish uncial of the imitative type with the pen cut for writing Greek rather than Latin: uncial A has a very pinched narrow bow; ꝺ, uncial H, uncial M, O, P, uncial Q have very round broad bows; the descenders of F, P, uncial Q are short; the hasta of F rests on the base-line; the strokes of X intersect almost at the head-line; the branches of Y rise from the base-line; suprascript U mostly at line-ends resembles flapping wings; the Prefaces are in artificial Rustic capital, using A with or without a cross-bar, F with an oblique ascending top and Kappa-shaped H; L often sweeps below the base-line; the bow of P is here and there open and s-shaped and rises above the head-line. In St Mark's account of the Passion the added letters c, t, a mark the change of voice in the liturgical chanting; the minuscule letters seem saec. IX or X.

☛McGurk, Gospel books no. 58.

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