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• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France 4808 (foll. 53–65)
• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 2769 (foll. 1–23)

Written doubtless in Italy, to judge by script, parchment, spelling, and decoration. By the eighth century the manuscript may have migrated, like the Codex Fuldensis (CLA 8.1196 of the Gospels, to a centre under Anglo-Saxon influence. Bought at Basle by Pierre Pithou, to whom both parts belonged: at the foot of fol. 1 of Lat. 2769 stands his entry ‘emptus Basilea 1563’; ‘P. Pithoei’ in bold letters stands at the foot of fol. 1 of Lat. 4808. Later MS Lat. 2769 was No. 3653 in the Colbert collection and No. 4535.3 in the Royal collection; MS Lat. 4808 had the number 2565 in the Colbert collection and 5203.3 in the Royal collection.

Each manuscript is by a different hand; the forms of the letters uncial A and B differ slightly in each part; the upper bows of C, uncial E, and S have a tendency to end in a fork; the middle upright of uncial M has a tiny base; the verticals of uncial H and L have a horizontal hair-line; the base of L ends in a downward stroke; F and P go below the line; Y is tall. An early, perhaps contemporary, corrector is seen on fol. 14 of Lat. 2769; the same manuscript has several short corrections in Insular minuscule saec. VIII–IX (foll. 3, 3v, X corrected to S; fol. 8v, l. 11, na added interlinearly; but especially fol. 6, l. 7, where lonis is added to aqui).

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