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• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 9378 (fol. 26)

Origin uncertain, probably Italy. The Pliny leaf was most likely removed from the binding of a St Amand manuscript: on fol. 26 is the old press-mark 175 h, which bears striking resemblance to other St Amand press-marks; the next leaf (fol. 27) is also taken from a St Amand manuscript. Our miscellany entered the Bibliothèque Nationale as Suppl. Lat. 1877 (see fol. 1).

Script is a somewhat stolid, broadish uncial, not of the oldest type: the bow of uncial A is pointed; the lower bow of B protrudes; the eye of uncial E is high and often closed; ꝺ, G, uncial M, and uncial Q are broad; the cross-bar of T is short; the crotch of Y is made of two curves rising branch-like above the head-line; the top and bottom strokes of Z are flat.