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• Vatican City Italy Biblioteca del Vaticano Palatinus Lat. 187 (foll. 8–66)

Origin uncertain. The whole MS was at Lorsch at least as early as the thirteenth century. The first part (see previous items) includes some medical receipts in a script suggesting North Italy.

Written by several hands, partly (foll. 8–24v med.) in uncial of the declining stage with the cross-stroke of T often forming a loop to the left and the stem having a distinct base-line, partly in pre-Caroline minuscule with many cursive elements: both e and c often have a little tag to the left; the shoulder of r often extends above the following letters; suprascript a occurs frequently in ligature.

☛Nicholas Everett, The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Toronto 2011).

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