Volume / Number: 5 / 532

• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 1625

Written probably in France, although Italy is not to be excluded. Belonged to de Thou (1553–1617): the ex-libris ‘Jac. Aug. Thuani’ stands in the lower right-hand corner of fol. 1. The manuscript bore the number 855 in the Colbert collection and 3956.I.D. in the Royal collection (see fol. 1).

Script is a bold and heavy but well-formed uncial: the bow of uncial A often hangs above the base line; the lower bow of B is open; ꝺ is made with three strokes; the top stroke of B, C, uncial E, and S is a mere dot; the tail of G is very short; N is mostly broad; the last stroke of R is short and low; T and I juxtaposed resemble Greek π; Y is short and looks like minuscule ꞅ. The neumes added in the margins of foll. 30 and 41v are Italian, according to Dom Beyssac.

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• Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
• Text: MSS containing exegetical works