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• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 7530

Written at Monte Cassino between the years 779 and 797, as is seen from the calendar and the paschal tables. Belonged to the chapter of Beneventum in the fifteenth century: at the bottom of fol. 1 stands the erased fifteenth century ex-libris 'lib(er) ecc(lesi)e ben(eventan)e'. In the seventeenth century the manuscript belonged to Le Tellier, Archbishop of Rheims, who in 1700 presented his collection to the Royal Library: the front fly-leaf has the ex-libris 'Codex Telleriano-Remensis 170'. It bore the number 5507.2 in the Royal collection.

Script is an early type of the South Italian minuscule known as Beneventan, written by one hand (except for fol. 214 and quire 30 = foll. 222–227): a resembles two contiguous c's open at the top; c is broken-backed; d has two forms; i-longa is used initially and semivocally; t with loop to the left mostly open; ei, fi, li, ri, and ti are always in ligature and the i goes below the line; the two sounds of ti are distinguished. Greek words occur frequently and are well written. Marginalia in almost contemporary Beneventan occur on fol. 141v.

☛L. Holtz, Le Parisinus Latinus 7530, synthèse cassinienne des arts libéraux, Stud. Med. s. 3, 16 (1975), pp. 97–152. ☛Beneventan script, cf. V. Brown, in: Manuscripts and tradition of grammatical texts, pp. 389–414. ☛F. Romanini, Malli Theodori de metris, Collectanea Grammatica Latina 6, Hildesheim 2007, pp. CXXVIII–CXXXIII (Mallius Theodoros). ☛I. Machielsen, Clavis patristica pseudepigraphorum Medii Aevi IIIA (2003), pp. 45–46. ☛Steffens, Paléographie latine, Pl. 42.

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