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CLA 553
Shelfmarks
  • Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 2367 (fol. 111)
  • Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 3784 (foll. 2–13)
  • Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Nouv. Acq. Lat. 2479
Script Pre-Caroline Minuscule
Date VIII ex (776 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in Italy, probably in the North. Later at St Martial, Limoges, where the MS was taken apart for binding; the leaves in N.A. Lat. 2479 were once fly-leaves in MS Lat. 2699, containing Augustine and Ambrose saec. XII; the old press-marks of this MS are 'Lemov. 125', 'XLVI', and '4321.2'; the Royal Library press-mark ‘3822²' is seen on fol. 1 of Lat. 3784; MS Lat. 2367 bears the old press-marks 'XXIV' and '4057² '.

CLA Vol. 5
TM Number TM 66683
Support Parchment
Contents Homiliarum Alani (Egino nos. 43, 44, 98–100, 105–116).
Script Commentary

Script is a roundish heavy minuscule of distinctly Italian character with ascenders strikingly club-shaped: both d and are used, f is almost half-uncial, suprascript u is v-shaped; ti ligature is used for hard and soft ti; the ra ligature with the open a is characteristic. MS Paris Lat. 2367 contains 112 folios: foll. 1–2 contain notes by Itier; foll. 3–110 contain Bede on the Catholic Epistles, saec. IX; fol. 112 belonged to MS Lat. 2428.

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