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• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 10318 (Codex Salmasianus)

Origin uncertain: probably North Italy or South France. The manuscript belonged to Claude Saumaise, noted French controversialist scholar (1588–1658). His ex-libris stands at the top of p. 1: ‘Cl. Sammasii’. Entered the Bibliothèque Nationale as Suppl. Lat. 685 (see p. 1).

Script is a heavy uncial by several similar hands: the bow of uncial A is roundish; the lower part of B protrudes; the tail of G is very thin; the arch of h is broad; the arcs of uncial M often rise above the line; the oblique stroke of N meets the second upright above the base-line; the top of T ends in two pendants; the lower left leg of X turns to the right and has a tag above the end; Y is undotted-the right branch of the crotch has a tag to the right at the head-line; FF and LL run together; the ascenders and descenders are long; uncial E with the cedilla is frequent, the cedilla hanging from the end of the curved stroke. At line-ends, when short of space, occasionally even in mid-line, the scribe drops into minuscule with cursive ti, te and ti (p. 67, 180), which is probably his normal script, as is suggested by the similarity to the script of the marginal notes in red on p. 264 ff., certainly made by the scribe himself.

☛ M. Spallone, IMU 25 (1982), p. 1–71. ☛ C. Heusch, Die Achilles-Ethopoiie des codex Salmasianus, 1997.

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