Volume / Number: 5 / 614

CLA	614
Shelfmarks	Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 11641 Geneva Switzerland Bibliothèque MS Lat. 16 (97) St Petersburg Russia Russian National Library Lat. F.I.1
Script	Uncial and Half-Uncial
Date	VII–VIII (680 - 720)
Origin and Provenance	Origin probably the Luxeuil region: the same type of uncial is found in titles of MSS Verona 40 (38) and Vatic. Regin. Lat. 317 (CLA 4.497 and 1.106). The manuscript was at Lyon in the ninth century, where it was used by Florus. The Geneva part (CLA 7.**614) has the bookplate of Alexandre Petau; the Paris part was in the possession of the Fimarcon family in 1681, and was supposed to have once belonged to the Cathedral of Narbonne. Was at Saint-Germain-des-Prés by 1750, where it bore the number ‘lat. 664.3’. Acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale during the Revolution. The St Petersburg leaf came into the collection of Peter Dubrowsky in 1795.
CLA Vol.	5
TM Number	TM 59329
Support	Parchment and Papyrus
Contents	Augustinus, Epistulae (279, 288, 21, 41, 38, 20, 358, 99, 359, 81, 194, 374, 352), Enarrationes in Psalmos, De Doctrina Christiana (1.9–15), Sermones (180).
Script Commentary	Script is a handsome well-formed uncial: the bow of uncial A is characteristic; the lower bow of B protrudes considerably; the tail of G sweeps to the left almost parallel to the base-line; the top of T has a loop to the left and the stem has a long serif to the right; the lower left branch of X ends in a thickening to the right; the top and bottom strokes of Z are curved. Half-uncial by the same hand appears without reason from line 6 of fol. 7v and runs to the last line of fol. 8: n has two forms, N and n; the shafts of b, d, h, and l and even short down-strokes have a wedge-like finial strongly reminiscent of Insular calligraphy. Marginalia in rapid Merovingian cursive occur on fol. 26v. Many annotations, question-marks, and other signs in the well-known hand of Florus Diaconus of Lyon (†ca. 860).
Notes	☛Mabillon, De re diplomatica, p. 355 and specimen; Nouveau Traité, I, pp. 486–7 and pl. III ☛Tewes, Luxeuil, No. 13, dates to VII ex. ☛Ganz, Luxeuil: 1 scribe; half-uncial on foll. 7v, 8r. ☛Mostert, Fleury, BF368, 1172. ☛Bischoff Katalog 1 no. 1345a. ☛Van Haelst 1227. ☛Previous owner’s name (Aug. Petau) changed to follow manuscript.
Facsimile URL	http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8438674r http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/lat0016
Collections	Origin: Luxeuil—MSS from the school of Luxeuil (Tewes 2011) Text: MSS containing exegetical works CLA information changed Provenance: Fleury library (Mostert 1989) Script: MSS illustrated in De re diplomatica Origin: Burgundia Scripta (Barbet-Massin, Bully, Gasse-Grandjean)
Last modified	15 September 2022