Identifier:

2/XI/ITA/10.

Scope and content:

r-v: //[non]dum retentura suspensum si voluisset . . . quattuor lampadarios quattuor esse episcopos// [Passio s. Severini: AS Jan. 1.501 cols. 1-2; BHL no.7660].

Acquisition information:

Written in central Italy. Torn in the middle portion. Ink has flaked off the flesh-side. Used for binding a notarial register (s. XVI?): title on the verso, “Liber instrumentorum domini Georgii,” entered among other notes by a sixteenth-century Italian hand.

Physical description:

Parchment, 1 leaf; 450 × 295 (332 × 203) mm. 2 columns of 42 lines; double bounding lines, triple between the columns; drypoint ruling; pricking in the outer margin. Late rounded Caroline minuscule script; ascenders are often wedge-shaped; abbreviation marks for and in the small 7 shape; with very long cedilla is frequent; dark brown ink. Small capital initials and heading line of the text are slashed with red; on verso, an 18-line initial outlined in red, paneled with geometrical patterns in red, green, and blue on yellow grounds.

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