{ "items": [ { "label": "1", "City":"Vatican City", "Library":"Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana", "Shelfmark":"Vatic. Palat. Lat. 491 (foll. 1-33)", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"1.5a", "Origin":"North Italy/Insular Centre", "Script":"Insular Minuscule", "Contents":"Augustinus in Epistulas Pauli ad Romanos et ad Galatas.", "Foliation":"Foll. 33 (in whole MS. foll. 51; for foll. 34-51 see C.L.A., 1.5b); 265 X 193 mm. < 220-230 X 150-160 mm.> in 24-37 lines.", "Comments":"Written in North Italy in an Insular centre. The whole MS. was inserted in its present place among the Vaticani by Cardinal Mai to replace a printed book.", "Thumbnail":"The script is rapid, not very expert Insular minuscule showing continental influence.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"41.904, 12.453", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"2", "City":"Vatican City", "Library":"Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana", "Shelfmark":"Vatic. Palat. Lat. 491 (foll. 34-51) + Florence, Laur. Ashburnham 60 [16]", "Saec":"VIII ex.", "CLAreference":"1.5b", "Origin":"North Italy/Insular Centre", "Script":"Insular Minuscule", "Contents":"Pseudo-Augustinus, Hypomnesticon; 'Ambrosiaster' in Epistulas Pauli.", "Foliation":"For the part of the Vatican MS., foll. 1-33, see C.L.A., 1.5a. At one time the 'Ambrosiaster', now the Florence MS., occupied a position in the Vatican MS. between the Augustinus in Epist. Pauli (with which the quire-marks are continuous) and the Ps.-Augustinus, Hypomnesticon. Foll. 93 (18 in Vatican - foliated 34-51 - and 75 in Florence; ca. 265 X 195 mm. in 37-39 long lines.", "Comments":"Written in North Italy in an Insular centre. The whole MS. was inserted in its present place among the Vaticani by Cardinal Mai to replace a printed book. The Laurentian MS. has on a paper fly-leaf the arms of 'Le Comte D. Boutourlin' and later belonged to Lord Ashburnham.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a debased Irish minuscule, crowded and ungainly, apparently under continental influence, but some contemporary marginalia are in pure Insular.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"41.904, 12.453", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"3", "City":"Vatican City", "Library":"Bibloteca Apostolica Vaticana", "Shelfmark":"Vatic. Palat. Lat. 68", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"1.78", "Origin":"North of England", "Script":"Anglo-Saxon Minuscule", "Contents":"Glossa in Psalmos", "Foliation":"Foll. 46; ca. 310 X 190 mm. < ca. 267 X 150 mm.> in 40-43 long lines.", "Comments":"Written by Edilberict, son of Berictfrid (fol. 46), probably in the north of England. The tur-symbol points to an English scriptorium, as do the vernacular glosses, but script and decoration point to Ireland. Later in Germany, probably at Lorsch: a pentrial 'Cunibraht' is found on fol. 46v.", "Thumbnail":"Written in rapid and expert fine minuscule. Each psalm begins with an uncoloured initial of strikingly angular Insular type, followed by a group of larger letters often in majuscule. In the text occur vernacular glosses marked by oblique apices.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"41.904, 12.453", "ImageFileName": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.68.f.32r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.68.f.32r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.68.f.32r.jpg" }, { "label":"4", "City":"Vatican City", "Library":"Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana", "Shelfmark":"Vatic. Patal. Lat. 210", "Saec":"VI-VII.", "CLAreference":"1.84", "Origin":"Italy", "Script":"Uncial", "Contents":"Augustinus, Opuscula", "Foliation":"Foll. 270; 243 X 178 mm. < 190 X 125 mm.> in 33 long lines.", "Comments":"Written probably in Italy. Came to an Anglo-Saxon centre, probably Lorsch, at least as early as saec. IX. Belonged to Gerwardus, and is recorded in the first Lorsch catalogue (Vatic. Palat. Lat. 1877). Lorsch ex-libris saec. XII on fol. 1. The first leaf contains a book-list in Irish script saec. IX, and Irish majuscule letters occur on fol. 147v. Fol. 1 also contains the name Sigimunt in German minuscule saec. IX.", "Thumbnail":"Written by several scribes in careful uncial, not of the oldest type, with frequent use of hair-lines in part of the MS. Half-uncial is used for three excerpts from the Retractationes. Marginalia in ancient sloping uncial. Nota Tironiana on fol. 168. The first leaf contains a book-list in Irish script saec. ix, and Irish majuscule letters occur on fol. 147v . Fol. 1 also contains the name Sigimunt in German minuscule saec. ix.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"41.904, 12.453", "SourceWork": "http://digi.vatlib.it/view/bav_pal_lat_210/0007?page_query=1&navmode=struct&action=pagesearch&sid=e2f464a979f603a493c3a644233547c8", "ImageFileName": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.210.f.1r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.210.f.1r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.210.f.1r.jpg" }, { "label":"5", "City":"Vatican City", "Library":"Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana", "Shelfmark":"Vatic. Palat. Lat. 235 (foll. 4-29)", "Saec":"VIII ex.", "CLAreference":"1.87", "Origin":"Ireland or Northumbria", "Script":"Insular Minuscule", "Contents":"Paulinus Nolanus, Carmina", "Foliation":"Foll. 26 (in whole MS. foll. 67); ca. 300 X 225 mm. partly in 2 columns of 26-28 lines, partly in long lines, all written without verse or quatrain division.", "Comments":"Origin either Ireland or Northumbria. The Paulinus is bound up with several tenth-century and later MSS., one of which comes from S. Maria in Huisborch (Saxony). There is no evidence that any part came from with Fulda or Lorsch.", "Thumbnail":"Script is partly a debased majuscule, partly minuscule with cursive elements and fantastic elaboration often hard to read.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"41.904, 12.453", "SourceWork": "http://digi.vatlib.it/view/bav_pal_lat_235/0038/image?sid=e065a1d207ae43ebbcb39b1de9f66ec8#current_page", "ImageFileName": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.235.f.16v.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.235.f.16v.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.235.f.16v.jpg" }, { "label":"6", "City":"Vatican City", "Library":"Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana", "Shelfmark":"Vatic. Palat. Lat. 259", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"1.9", "Origin":"Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent", "Script":"Insular Majuscule and Minuscule", "Contents":"Gregorius, Homiliae in Ezechielem", "Foliation":"Foll. 97 (fol. 1 is a small mounted fragment); 280 X 205 mm. <220-230 X 165-175 mm.> in 23-28 long lines.", "Comments":"Written in an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent. The last pate (fol. 97v) is filled up with probationes pennae, Insular alphabets, and the tag 'Omnium inimicorum suorum ...' found often in the Würzberg MSS.", "Thumbnail":"Simple initials of Insular type occasionally decorated and filled with colour. Parchment defective and of poor quality, prepared in the Insular style. Written by many scribes, most of whom use mixed Anglo- Saxon majuscule, some pure minuscule, and one hand (foll. 16-18) is clearly attempting to imitate Anglo Saxon characters. Corrected throughout in rapid contemporary Anglo-Saxon minuscule.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"41.904, 12.453", "ImageFileName": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.259.f.30r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.259.f.30r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Vatican.,BAV,Pal.lat.259.f.30r.jpg" }, { "label":"7", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. C. 5 inf.", "Saec":"VII ex. (A.D. 680-691)", "CLAreference":"3.311", "Origin":"Bangor, Northern Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Orationale - 'The Bangor Antiphonary'", "Foliation":"Foll. 36, of unequal size: the first four are considerably damaged and most of the smaller ones are insertions; maximum dimensions 235 X 190 mm. <210 X 160 mm., with wide variation> in 24 long lines in the first quire, in the rest of the MS. in 2 columns of 24-28 lines.", "Comments":"Written at Bangor in northern Ireland during the abbacy of Colman (680-691), according to the hymn entered by a contemporary hand on the last page. This makes the MS. one of the important landmarks in Insular calligraphy. There is no precise record of the time it reached Bobbio, nor any sign of its having been used there. A MS. of similar contents and doubtless with a similar history survives in part in Turin F. IV. 1, fasc. 9. The present binding of our MS. dates from 1913.", "Thumbnail":" Initials of the characteristic Irish type in black, decorated with groups of three red dots, or by red dots along the entire outline; not infrequently the first two letters are in ligature; letters after some initials are large and gradually diminish to the normal size. Script is an early example of Irish minuscule by more than one hand.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,C.5inf.f.30r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,C.5inf.f.30r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,C.5inf.f.30r.jpg" }, { "label":"8", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. C. 26 sup.", "Saec":"VII ex.", "CLAreference":"3.312", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Majuscule verging on Minuscule", "Contents":"Basilius, Regula (imperf.).", "Foliation":"Foll. 50; 210 X 150 mm. < 155 X 105 mm.> in 27-28 long lines.", "Comments":"Written probably at Bobbio. The familiar Bobbio ex-libris with number 40 stands at the top of fol. 1.", "Thumbnail":"Red is used for the recurrent rubrics 'interrogatio' and 'responsio', written in the script of the text; on foll. 15, 28, 36, simple initials in black outline the red dots superimposed on the black - an Insular feature. Script is a peculiar, not very expert type of Irish majuscule verging on minuscule, written by a scribe not native to the Irish manner it bears some resemblance to the script of the Codex Usserianus Primus (C.L.A., 2.271) and that of the Ambrosian MS. of Orosius (C.L.A., 3.328).", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,C.26sup.f.15r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,C.26sup.f.15r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,C.26sup.f.15r.jpg" }, { "label":"9", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. C. 301 inf.", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"3.326", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Commentarius in Psalmos (Pseudo-Theodorus Mopsuestenus et Iulianus Aeclanensis).", "Foliation":"Foll. 146, paginated 6 to 298, now unbound and taken apart; 330 X 230 mm. normally in 2 columns of 37 lines, but occasionally 39 (the numerous inserted leaves have smaller dimensions, some being mere strips.", "Comments":"Written in Ireland, probably at Bangor or possible in Leinster, by the scribe Diarmait. The fifteenth-century Bobbio ex-libris and the number 89 stand on fol. 2. Reached the Ambrosiana in 1606. The large number of marginal and interlinear glosses in the vernacular are of primary importance for the study of Old-Irish.", "Thumbnail":"The colophon at the end of the volume (fol. 146v) is in black in the script of the text: 'Finit amen + diarmait + scripsit orate pro illo peccatore'. Numerous initials, boldly drawn in black, are typically Irish and often occur in interlaced groups of two or three. Membranes prepared in the Irish manner, thick and greasy. Ink very black. Script is a firm and well developed Irish minuscule recalling Turin F. IV. i and to some extent the Cambridge St. Paul (C.L.A., 2.133).", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"10", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. D. 10 sup. (front fly-leaves)", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"3.327", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Evangelia (Matt. XVII.4-9, XIX.4-12).", "Foliation":"One bifolium considerably cut down and used as a front fly-leaf of a paper MS., the first recto of the bifolium being pasted down on the wooden board (the main MS., foll. 134 + 2 blank leaves, contains Joannes de Capistrano De Usuris, De Conscientia, foll. 1-86, Institutio Confessorum, foll. 87-134, and part of S. Antoninus, Summa, all in Italian Gothic saec. XIV-XV; the end fly-leaf is a bifolium from a liturgical MS. with neums saec. XI-XII). Foll. 2; cut down to 205 X 150 mm., calculated written space ca. 220 X 140 mm. in 2 columns of 19 lines of which 16 survive.", "Comments":"Origin probably Bobbio. The MS. was cut up and used by the binder in the fifteenth century. The main MS. has the Bobbio inventory number 307.", "Thumbnail":"Spelling shows the characteristically Irish misuse of s and ss: 'dimisam' for 'dimissam'. A number of larger letters at the beginnings of verses are decorated by red dots along the outline and also on top of the black; no other decoration. Parchment is not of the Insular type. Script is a bold calligraphic Irish majuscule.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.10sup.f.IIIr.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.10sup.f.IIIr.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.10sup.f.IIIr.jpg" }, { "label":"11", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. D. 23. sup.", "Saec":"VII.", "CLAreference":"3.328", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Orosius, Chronicon (imperf.).", "Foliation":"Foll. 48; 210 X 150 mm. < 165 X 120 mm.> in 22 long lines.", "Comments":"Written probably at Bobbio. The external resemblance between this MS. and the Ambrosian MS. of Basilius (C.L.A., 3.312) suggests that they both have a similar origin. The familiar Bobbio ex-libris, without the number, is seen on fol. 2. The MS. was No. 52 in the Bobbio inventory of 1461. For the fragment of Isidore in Insular script which formerly served as fly-leaves to this MS. see C.L.A., 3.329", "Thumbnail":"Script is an expert Irish majuscule (verging on minuscule) of the peculiar type seen in Codex Usserianus I (C.L.A., 2.271) and in the Ambrosian Basilius (C.L.A., 3.312). The initial N on fol. 33 is coloured bright red and green and surrounded by red dots, with a background decorated by by groups of red dots triangularly arranged.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.23sup.f.2r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.23sup.f.2r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.23sup.f.2r.jpg" }, { "label":"12", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros.*D. 23. sup.", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"3.329", "Origin":"Uncertain (probably Ireland)", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Isidorus, Liber Differentiarum (XXXVII.146-XL. 167).", "Foliation":"Foll. 2 (two separate leaves, or rather squares of tough calf-skin, probably from the same quire); 250 X 200 mm. < 224 X 180 mm.> in 40-47 lines.", "Comments":"Origin uncertain, probably Ireland. Formerly used as fly-leaves to the Insular MS. of Orosius, Ambros. D. 23 sup. (see C.L.A., 3.328).", "Thumbnail":"Spelling shows confusion of vowels (costodit, conpriemit), and the characteristically Irish misuse of s and ss (prodese, amise, obpossuerunt). Barbarous word division at line-ends: p-ermixtus, secundi-s. Script is an ungainly, inexpert, imitative Irish majuscule. Fol. 2.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.23sup.f.33r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.23sup.f.33r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,D.23sup.f.33r.jpg" }, { "label":"13", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. F. 60 sup. (foll. 1-46, 58-77).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"3.336", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Excerpta Ex Patribus.", "Foliation":"The MS. is composite and consists in all of 77 folios; < ca. 210 X ca. 155 mm.> normally in 2 columns of about 33 lines.", "Comments":"Written presumably in Ireland. Corrections and extensive additions were made, most likely at Bobbio, towards the end of the eigth century. The usual Bobio ex-libris and the number 156 are see on fol. 1.", "Thumbnail":"Script is Irish minuscule (parts seem more like compressed majuscule) by several scribes. The invocation 'In nomine dei summi' (for incipit)- an Irish feature - stands at the top of fol. 38 .", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.61r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.61r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.61r.jpg" }, { "label":"14", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. F. 60 sup. (foll. 47-49, 55-57, 58).", "Saec":"VIII ex.", "CLAreference":"3.337", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Excerpta Ex Patribus.", "Foliation":"Palimpsest, secondary script (for the primary script, see C.L.A., 3.338); foll. 7, made up of three bifolia and a single narrow slip sewed up with fol. 58; ca. 235 X 175 mm. in 33-36 long lines.", "Comments":"Written presumably at Bobbio, whence the MS. comes. It was No. 156 in the inventory of 1461.", "Thumbnail":"Script is Irish minuscule, by several more or less similar hands, showing Continental influence.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.47r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.47r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.47r.jpg" }, { "label":"15", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. F. 60 sup. (foll. 50, 52-54).", "Saec":"VIII ex.", "CLAreference":"3.339", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Explanatio in Evangelium S. Iohannis.", "Foliation":"Foll. 4, made up of 2 bifolia; ca. 210 X ca. 165 mm. < 180-190 X 140 mm.> in 19 or 27 long lines.", "Comments":"Written by an Irish scribe under Continental influence, presumably at Bobbio. The entire MS. was No. 156 in the inventory of 1461.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a somewhat crude Irish minuscule not of the pure type; strokes are ill-joined and in general letters incline to the left; shafts of tall letters are club-shaped and lack the typical Insular finial; a letter at the beginning of a sentence occasionally encloses the letter following.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.54r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.54r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,F.60sup.f.54r.jpg" }, { "label":"16", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. F. 60 sup. (fol. 51).", "Saec":"VIII ex.", "CLAreference":"3.34", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Glossarium (fragm.).", "Foliation":"One irregular scrap of parchment, originally preserved in the body of the MS., now bound up at the end of the volume; 94 X 202 mm. <77-85 x 180-195 mm.> in 3 columns of 7-15 lines.", "Comments":"Written presumably at Bobbio. Manifestly a scrap or schedula containing some rough material of a glossary.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a somewhat awkward Irish minuscule of the same type as the script of foll. 47 ff., etc.; the verso was written upside down.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"17", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. G. 82 sup. (pages 209/210, 375/376, 385/386, 449-452, 461/462, 471-474).", "Saec":"VII.", "CLAreference":"3.344b", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Uncial, Half-Uncial, Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Libri Regum.", "Foliation":"Palimpsest, upper script (for the lower script of pp. 375/376, 385/386, 449/450, 471-474, containing Seneca in Rustic capital saec. V., see C.L.A., 3.346; the three leaves, made up of one bifolium and one inserted leaf, now paginated 209/210, 451/452 and 461/462 were taken from a discarded Gothic MS. of Esdras and Nehemias in uncial saec. VI.). Foll. 8, used to replace lost or damaged portions of the sixth-century palimpsest of Kings over Plautus described in C.L.A., 3.334a; 240-252 X ca. 210-217 mm., with varying written space.", "Comments":"Written doubtless at Bobbio. For the composition and history of the palimpsest see C.L.A., 3.344a and 3.345.", "Thumbnail":"The Irish majuscule is bold and calligraphic. A verse omitted by the sixth-century half-uncial scribe has been inserted in the margin of page 150 by a seventh century Irish hand. On page 462 the same or a similar hand uses once an unmistakable Irish g.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"18", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. I. 61 sup.", "Saec":"VII2.", "CLAreference":"3.350", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Evangelia.", "Foliation":"Foll. 89 (the entire MS. contains 92 folios; the original MS. of the Gospels ends on fol. 89; for the palimpsest folios 90-91 in half-uncial over Ulfilas in Gothic uncial saec. VI, now kept separately, see C.L.A., 3.351; fol. 92 contains three Bobbio charters of the year 1210); 232 X 174 mm. in 21-39 long lines.", "Comments":"Written by Irish scribes, probably at Bobbio. Used liturgically over a long period: two rubrics were inserted in fourteenth-fifteenth-century Gothic minuscule (foll. 82-83), and the same hand touched up, with red, capitals in the lesson from John read in Holy Week. The fifteenth-century Bobbio ex-libris with the No. 6 stands on fol. 1 and (without the number) on fol. 2. It was No. 6 in the inventory of 1461. The MS. is remarkable for its text.", "Thumbnail":"Script is an Irish majuscule by more than one hand. Marginal entries in various Irish hands (fol. 15, etc.).", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,I.61sup.f.70v.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,I.61sup.f.70v.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,I.61sup.f.70v.jpg" }, { "label":"19", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. M. 67 sup. (fly-leaves).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"3.355", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Augustinus, Tractatus in Epistulam I Iohannis IV, VI-VII.", "Foliation":"Foll. 2 (one bifolium numbered i and ii, now used as front fly-leaves to a MS. of 191 folios containing Concilia, etc. in Caroline minuscule saec. IX); now cut down to 230 X 200 mm., width of written space ca. 185 mm., calculated length ca. 270 mm.; about 41 lines survive, and approximately 7 lines are lost at the top and bottom of page, so that a full page probably counted 48 lines.", "Comments":"Written apparently in Ireland. The main MS. was presented to the monastery in the ninth century by Abbot Agilulfus, as is seen from the verses entered on fol. 191 at the end of the volume. The usual Bobbio ex-libris and the number 136 are seen in the top and bottom margins of fol. 1.", "Thumbnail":"Script is an expert Irish minuscule. Initials are uncoloured and are mostly simple in design. Accents occur on monosyllables and on long is in final syllables.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"20", "City":"Milan", "Library":"Biblioteca Ambrosiana", "Shelfmark":"Ambros. O. 212 sup.", "Saec":"VII ex.", "CLAreference":"3.361", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Majuscule verging on Minuscule", "Contents":"Gennadius de Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus; Fides Bachiarii; Fides 'Quicumque Vult'; Fides 'Hieronymi'.", "Foliation":"Foll. 18; 255 X 185-190 mm. < ca. 215 X 165 mm.> in long lines varying in number from 20 to 35.", "Comments":"Written probably at Bobbio: in the form of y, the type of initial, and the predominanly Spanish character of the text speak for North Italy rather than Ireland. Once bound up with the Bobbio MS. of Ambros. D. 268 inf. (see C.L.A., 3.334), written by an Irish hand using the same type of y and the same curious elongated z-shaped sign in punctuation. Was No. 58 in the Bobbio inventory of 1461: this number with the familiar fifteenth-century Bobbio ex-libris stands in the upper margin of fol. 2.", "Thumbnail":"The Incipits on foll. 1v and 8 are preceded by the formula invoking the Trinity, affected by Irish scribes (cf. C.L.A., 2.276). Script is a vigorous but undisciplined Irish majuscule verging on minuscule (especially from the bottom of fol. 14v to the top of fol. 17) with some resemblance to the script of the Gospel MS. 1. 61 sup. (C.L.A., 3.350). The final lines of some pages are in a more compressed type of script - an Irish practice.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.466667, 9.183333", "ImageFileName": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,O.212sup.f.15r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,O.212sup.f.15r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Milan.,Ambrosiana,O.212sup.f.15r.jpg" }, { "label":"21", "City":"Naples", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"Lat. 2 (Vindobon. 16).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"3.391", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Hieronymus et Gennadius De Viris Illustribus; Augustinus, Epistulae.", "Foliation":"Palimpsest, secondary script (for the primary scripts, Lucan in Rustic capital saec. IV and Pelagonius in uncial saec. VI, see C.L.A., 3.392 and 3.393). The present makeup is as follows: one quaternion (1-8), one quinion (9-18), a scrap folded as a bifolium (19/20), one quaternion (21-28), one ternion (29-36) with two inserted single leaves (32, 34), one bifolium (37/41) enclosing three single leaves (38, 39, 40), and one single leaf (42); foll. 13-14 are blank leaves taken from an older MS., for the quire-mark XXX can still be seen in the lower left-hand corner of fol. 13v ; foll. 19-20 are an inserted scrap of parchment; and fol. 42 is a blank leaf from an older MS. in uncial, traces of which remain in the fold. Foll. 42; ca. 200 X 185 mm. <160 -170 X 150 mm.) in long lines of varying number.", "Comments":"Written doubtless at Bobbio, probably at the same time as the Charisius over Lucan (see C.L.A., 3.400). On fol. 1 is the fifteenth-century Bobbio ex-libris 'Liber sancti columbani de bobbio'. Removed probably by Parrhasius (†1522), passed later to Antonio Seripando (†1531), and from him to his brother Girolamo, Cardinal Archbishop of Salerno (†1563), who left his library to the Augustinians of S. Giovanni a Carbonara, Naples. Removed to Vienna in 1717 and returned to Naples in 1919.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a finely penned, tiny Irish minuscule. Some sections begin with a series of larger letters which gradually diminish in size, an Insular practice.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"40.845, 14.258333", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"22", "City":"Naples", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"Lat. 2 (Vindobon. 16) (foll. 42*-75).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"3.394", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Grammatica et Patristica Varia.", "Foliation":"Palimpsest, secondary script, consisting of one quinion (foll. 42*-46, 71-75) enclosing another quinion (foll. 47-56) and a septenion (foll. 57-70), which may have been inserted later (for the primary scripts, Actus Apostolorum, etc. in half-uncial saec. VI on foll. 42*, 43-56, 71-75, and Epistula Apocrypha Apostolorum in uncial saec. VI2 on foll. 60, 67, see C.L.A., 3.395 and 3.396; the remaining folios, 62-65, contain Dioscorides in Greek uncial saec. VI; and the bifolia 57 and 70, 58 and 69, 59 and 68, 61 and 66, come from four other medical MSS. in Greek uncial saec. VII). Foll. 34; ca. 230 X 180 mm. < ca. 200 X 140-160 mm.> partly in 2 columns, partly in long lines of varying number.", "Comments":"Written doubtless at Bobbio. On the second leaf (fol. 43) is the fifteenth-century ex-libris, 'Liber sancti columbani de bobio'.; Removed probably at Parrhasius (†1522), passed later to Antonio Seripando (†1531), and from him to his brother Girolamo, Cardinal Archbishop of Salerno (†1563), who left his library to the Augustinians of S. Giovanni a Carbonara, Naples. Removed to Vienna in 1717 and returned to Naples in 1919.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a finely penned Irish minuscule by many hands. Modest initials of the Insular type in black with a tendency to enclose the letter or letters following, or to combine in monogram. The opening words of a section are occasionally in Irish majuscule.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"40.845, 14.258333", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"23", "City":"Naples", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"Lat. 2 (Vindobon. 16) (foll. 157-158).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"3.397b", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Excerpta ex Macrobio.", "Foliation":"Two separate leaves pasted together as one bifolium and inserted out of place in the bifolium 156/159 of the Charisius MS. in quarter-uncial (see C.L.A., 3.397a). Foll. 2; 270 X 155 mm. < 235-240 X 125 mm.> in 42-48 long lines.", "Comments":"Written doubtless at Bobbio. For the later history of the MS. see C.L.A., 3.394.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a neat, rapidly written Irish minuscule with cursive ti, ri, and subscript a and i. Punctuation: the main pause is marked by three points arranged in a triangle, lesser pauses by the simple point.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"40.845, 14.258333", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"24", "City":"Naples", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"IV. A. 8 (foll. 1-39).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"3.400", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Charisius, Ars Grammatica; Servius de Centum Metris.", "Foliation":"Palimpsest, secondary script (for the primary scripts, viz. Paralipomena in half-uncial saec. VI on foll. 1-24, Lucan in Rustic capital saec. IV on foll. 25-35, and Digesta in uncial saec. VI on foll. 36-39, see C.L.A., 3.401, 3.392, and 3.402; all now taken apart and kept between glass). Foll. 39; ca. 305 X 235 mm. <270 X 210 mm.> for the most part in colums of 56-70 lines or more.", "Comments":"Written doubtless at Bobbio, probably at the same time as Hieronymus over Lucan (see C.L.A., 3.391). The familiar fifteenth-century ex-libris 'Liber sancti columbani de bobio' is on fol. 38. Obtained probably before 1504 by Parrhasius (†1522), passed later to Antonio Seripando (†1531), and from him to his brother Girolamo, Cardinal Archbishop of Salerno (†1563), who left his library to the Augustinians of S. Giovanni a Carbonara, Naples.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a finely penned Irish minuscule by several hands. At the beginning of sections, two or more letters are often bound in monogram or nestle within the bow of the initial letter.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"40.845, 14.258333", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"25", "City":"Turin", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"A. II. 2* (foll. 3-112).", "Saec":"VII.", "CLAreference":"4.441", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Half-uncial and Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Augustinus, Collatio cum Maximino, contra Maximinum Libri II.", "Foliation":"Palimpsest, upper script (for the lower scripts, Cicero, Orationes in Rustic capital saec.V, ad Familiares in uncial saec. V-VI, and Livy in uncial saec. V (?). Foll 110 (foll. 113 in the entire MS.: foll. 1-2 represent a 'twelfth-century' restoration of the beginning of the MS.; fol. 113, containing Cyprian over Cicero in Verrem (C.L.A., 4.444, 4.445) was originally part of MS. G. V. 37 (No. 464); the MS. was taken apart and the leaves distributed in thirteen portfolios according to the contents of the lower script; fol. 5 was already missing in 1869 and on Livy leaf in 1871); ca. 230 X ca. 130-140 mm. in 27-30 lines.", "Comments":"Written no doubt at Bobbio. Was number 19 in the inventory of 1461. Presented to a duke of Savoy in the first half of the seventeenth century. Came to the notice of scholars in 1820, when A. Peyron discovered the famous palimpsest of Cicero. Destroyed by fire in 1904.", "Thumbnail":"Spelling and syllabification show Irish characteristics: possitum; adora-nt. In the Irish majuscule portion several sentences begin with several large letters which gradually diminish in size. At least four scribes worked on the manuscript. Script is partly half-uncial of a peculiar type, manifestly under Irish influence—it is seen in other Bobbio MSS. (cf. C.L.A., 3.362, 3.365)—and partly Irish majuscule; ; one of the Irish hands has a trick of writing the last three lines of a page in a curious, rather slim minuscule with many ligatures taken from Italian cursive. Contemporary corrections by an Irish hand.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.066667, 7.7", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"26", "City":"Turin", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"F. IV. 1 Fasc. 5 + Fasc. 6.", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"4.452", "Origin":"Bobbio", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Theodorus Mopsuestenus in Psalmos (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Foll. 14, composed of 7 bifolia, 4 of which are kept in Fasc. 5 and 3 in Fasc. 6, all considerably damaged by the fire of 1904; original size 230-270 X 170-210 mm., now shrunk to 222 X 160 mm. <195 X 135-175 mm.> in two columns, the number of lines varying between 38 and 59.", "Comments":"Written probably at Bobbio. This MS. may be a direct copy of Milan Ambros. C. 301 inf. (C.L.A., 3.326), and is probably to be identified with No. 144 in the inventory of 1461.", "Thumbnail":"Script is an Irish minuscule by an expert hand. Typical Insular initials in black, some surrounded by red dots.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.066667, 7.7", "ImageFileName": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.5,c.7.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.5,c.7.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.5,c.7.jpg" }, { "label":"27", "City":"Turin", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"F. IV. 1 Fasc. 7.", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"4.453", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Pseudo-Hieronymus, Commentarius in Marcum (I. 1-6, XIV. 52-XV. 21).", "Foliation":"One bifolium, considerably damaged in the fire of 1904, now repaired and mounted. Original size 290 X 210 mm., now shrunk to 265 X 198 mm. <240 X 175 mm.> in 2 columns of 31-41 lines.", "Comments":"Written presumably in Ireland, perhaps in the same centre, by the same scribe as Milan, Ambros. C. 301 inf. The Leaves were found by A. Peyron in the Archives of the Ministry of Finance and acquired by him in 1820 for the University Library of Turin.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a rather angular Irish minuscule, somewhat similar to that of the Pauline Epistles in Trinity College, Cambridge (C.L.A., 2.133) and very like that found in Milan, Ambros. C. 301 inf. (C.L.A., 3.326). Numerous marginal entries, some in Old-Irish.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.066667, 7.7", "ImageFileName": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.7,cc.1v-2r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.7,cc.1v-2r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.7,cc.1v-2r.jpg" }, { "label":"28", "City":"Turin", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"F. IV. 1 Fasc. 9.", "Saec":"VIII in.", "CLAreference":"4.454", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Insular Majuscule", "Contents":"Liturgica, Hymni (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Three bifolia, much damaged by the fire of 1904. Original size ca. 260 X 220 mm., now shrunk to 245 X 205 mm. < 215-220 X 165mm.> in 21 long lines.", "Comments":"Written doubtless in Ireland. Liturgically the MS. is very similar to the Bangor Antiphonary, Milan, Ambros. C. 5 inf. (C.L.A., 3.311) and has probably had a similar history.", "Thumbnail":"Spelling shows familiar Irish faults: perfussi, preccepta. Many initials or monograms in Insular style, filled with red, purple, and yellow and decorated by groups of red dots; on the page containing the Benedicite, coloured initials of B stand under each other in a chain. Membranes very thick, prepared in the Insular manner. Script is a rather coarse Irish majuscule by a not very expert scribe: d, n are minuscule; R is regularly uncial; S has both uncial and half-uncial forms; Y is typically Irish, with both branches curving to the right. Some notes in Old-Irish.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.066667, 7.7", "ImageFileName": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.9,c.2r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.9,c.2r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Turin.,BibliotecaNazionale,F.IV.1,fasc.9,c.2r.jpg" }, { "label":"29", "City":"Turin", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"F. IV. 24 (fol. 93).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"4.457", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Epistula Secunda Petri (I-II. 13).", "Foliation":"One leaf, partly palimpest, lower script (the upper script contains Sermo in Laudem S. Lucae in minuscule saec. XI), used as the last leaf of a MS. of 93 folios; cut down to 265 X 180 mm. in ca. 40 lines of which 38 survive.", "Comments":"Written presumably in Ireland. Rewritten at Bobbio saec. XI. The main MS., to which our leaf was added, is composite: foll. 1-60, containing Walafrid Strabo's life of St. Gall, have the familiar Bobbio ex-libris but no number; foll. 61-68, with the Vita S. Antonini, have the same ex-libris and the number 153, as well as the fifteenth-century ex-libris (Congregation of St. Justin) and the number 69. Both these parts may have reached Bobbio from elsewhere, but foll. 69-93, containing Vita S. Nicolai and Sermo in Laudem S. Lucae, are in Bobbio script.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a rapid Irish minuscule: a and q are open at the top. Numerous glosses in Old-Irish; a few in Latin by a somewhat later Irish hand using a stylus.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.066667, 7.7", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"30", "City":"Turin", "Library":"Biblioteca Nazionale", "Shelfmark":"O. IV. 20.", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"4.466", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Evangelia (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Partly palimpsest, lower script (the upper script contains Domenico Cavalca, Esposizione sopra il Credo saec. XV; leaves from several other MSS. were used in order to copy this work, the most recent being a liturgical MS. saec. XII-XIII, the oldest being the Irish Gospel fragments here described, which perished in the fire of 1904; two bifolia, with miniatures, survive: one of there (foll. 1v/2) was an addition; in the entire MS. foll. 189); original size 280 X 196 mm. in two columns of 22 lines.", "Comments":"Written presumably in Ireland. Reached Bobbio apparently not before the eleventh century. Not in the inventory of 1461. Re-used in the fifteenth century, along with leaves from other MSS., to copy a vernacular treatise by Cavalca, the Irish miniatures, curiously enough , remaining intact. Brought to Turin probably after the supression of the monastery in 1803. The entire MS., with the exception of the miniature pages, was destoyed in the fire of 1904. Their escape was due to the fact that they had been removed for photographing.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a stately Irish majuscule. Coloured initials of Insular type were spared, for some reason, when the text was erased.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"45.066667, 7.7", "ImageFileName": "Turin., BibliotecaNazionale,O.IV.20,c.43r.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Turin., BibliotecaNazionale,O.IV.20,c.43r.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Turin., BibliotecaNazionale,O.IV.20,c.43r.jpg" }, { "label":"31", "City":"Paris", "Library":"Bibliothèque Nationale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Nat. Lat. 9389.", "Saec":"VII-VIII.", "CLAreference":"5.578", "Origin":"Northumbria", "Script":"Insular Minuscule and Majuscule", "Contents":"Evangelia - 'Codex Epternacensis'.", "Foliation":"Foll. 223 (the last folio is blank except for a fifteenth-century cryptogram); 335 X 260 mm. <280 X ca. 205 mm.> in 2 columns of 24-25 lines.", "Comments":"Written in Northumbria, or possibly in a Continental centre with close Anglo-Saxon connexions such as Echternach, where the volume was preserved for centuries. The subscription at the end of foll. 222v reads: '+proemendaui ut potui secundum codicem de bibliotheca eugipi praespiteri quem ferunt fuisse sancti hieronimi indictione ui post consulatum bassilii u.c. anno septimo decimo'. This is manifestly copied from the exemplar, for the year 558 consitutes a paleographic anachronism. Provenance Echternach: the familiar fifteenth-century hand entered the title on fol. 1. The cryptogram on fol. 223v in which Arabic numerals do duty for vowels reads: 'Codex iste fuit in domo Tomadaii de Este, anno Domini millesimo quadragentesimo tricesimo tercio, hora sexta in meridie.' In the Bibliothèque Nationale its first shelf-mark was Suppl. Lat. 693 (see fol. 1).", "Thumbnail":"Decoration by an artist of superb skill and ingenuity with a remarkable sense of form and composition: each Gospel is preceded by a full-page finely drawn symbol of the Evangelist and opens with a large, handsome initial followed by a few lines in fancy capitals of angular shape, the whole in typical 'Celtic' style; numerous smaller initials are in bold black, washed with bright yellow, with spiral, palmette, and interlace pattern, some with crescent-shaped protuberances in the outline and white circles on the black background, some surrounded by red dots or with red dots superimposed on the black stem; even holes in the parchment have a border of red dots. Script is a superb example of Anglo-Saxon calligraphy. ", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.8567, 2.3508", "ImageFileName": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9389.-.Fol.19.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9389.-.Fol.19.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9389.-.Fol.19.jpg" }, { "label":"32", "City":"Paris", "Library":"Bibliothèque Nationale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Nat. Lat. 9488 (foll. 3-4).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"5.581", "Origin":"Ireland/Northern England", "Script":"Insular Majuscule", "Contents":"Sacramentarium (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Two folios in a miscellany of 80 folios consisting of fragments, mostly liturgical, taken from bindings (foll. 5 and 75-76 are described in C.L.A, 5.582 and 5.583); part of the text has been cut off; present measurements 285 X 205 mm. in 2 columns of more than 21 lines.", "Comments":"Origin probably Ireland or Northern England. Provenance unknown: an entry in Latin in sixteenth-century cursive (fol. 4v) has an umlaut-like accent above u which suggests a Germanic region; a sixteenth-century entry in French occurs on fol. 3. A note on the fly-leaf states that all the fragments constituting the volume were taken from manuscripts given to the binder in 1817.", "Thumbnail":"Initials of Insular type, coloured red, brownish yellow, and greyish blue. Headings in red in script of the text. Membranes prepared in the Insular manner. Ink black. Script is a bold, heavy majuscule.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.8567, 2.3508", "ImageFileName": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.3.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.3.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.3.jpg" }, { "label":"33", "City":"Paris", "Library":"Bibliothèque Nationale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Nat. Lat. 9488 (fol. 5).", "Saec":"VIII ex.", "CLAreference":"5.582", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Sacramentarium (fragm.).", "Foliation":"One leaf in very bad condition in a miscellany of 80 folios (see C.L.A., 5.581); now cut on three sides and measuring 255 X 170 mm.; more than 20 lines to a page.", "Comments":"Origin Ireland or a centre with Irish traditions. For provenance see C.L.A., 5.581.", "Thumbnail":"Omitted M, even in mid-line, is marked by a horizontal stroke over the vowel. The first word of each section is in large letters which diminish gradually to normal size. Traces of a lace-like arabesque appear in the margin. Membrane prepared in the Insular manner. Ink dark brown. Script is a rather graceful majuscule.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.8567, 2.3508", "ImageFileName": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.5.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.5.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.5.jpg" }, { "label":"34", "City":"Paris", "Library":"Bibliothèque Nationale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Nat. Lat. 9488 (foll. 75-76).", "Saec":"VIII2.", "CLAreference":"5.583", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Antiphonarium (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Two leaves in a miscellany of 80 folios (see C.L.A., 5.581 and 5.582); fol. 75, complete except for the outer margin, measures 270 X 186 mm. <225 X 170 mm.>, in 23 long lines.", "Comments":"Origin presumably in Ireland. For provenance see C.L.A., 5.581 and 5.582.", "Thumbnail":"Accents on monosyllables and on long is in final syllables. Abbreviations include Nomina Sacra. Script is an orderly, compressed Irish majuscule.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.8567, 2.3508", "ImageFileName": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.75.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.75.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.9488.-.Fol.75.jpg" }, { "label":"35", "City":"Paris", "Library":"Bibliothèque Nationale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Nat. Lat. 10400 (foll. 109-110) + Lat. 11411 (foll. 124-125)", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"5.599", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Eutyches de Verbo (fragm).", "Foliation":"Parts of two bifolia, now kept in two different miscellanies of fragments (Lat. 10400 containing 155 folios, Lat. 11411 containing 141 folios; the original order of leaves was probably: foll. 110, 125, 124, 109); present outside measurements are 245 X 220 mm. < 220 + X ca. 200 mm.> in 2 or more columns, the number of lines varying greatly, with a maximum of 43.", "Comments":"Written doubtless in Ireland.", "Thumbnail":"Accents occur over monosyllables and over long i in final syllables. Initials or monograms are in bold black and markedly angular in style: M occurs in the form of three verticals with a bar across the middle, a feature of Irish and Northumbrian MSS. Script is expert Irish minuscule, apparently by one and the same temperamental scribe infordinately fond of variety. Irish glosses by first hand.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.8567, 2.3508", "AdditionalImages": ["Paris,.BnF.Lat.11411.-.Fol.125v.jpg", "Paris,.BnF.Lat.10400.-.fol..109.jpg"], "ImageFileName": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.10400.-.fol..109.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.10400.-.fol..109.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.10400.-.fol..109.jpg" }, { "label":"36", "City":"Paris", "Library":"Bibliothèque Nationale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Nat. Lat. 1411 (fol. 123).", "Saec":"VIII2.", "CLAreference":"5.610", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Insular Majuscule and Minuscule", "Contents":"Excerpta ex Arte Consentii (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Fragment of one leaf, numbered 123 in miscellany of 141 folios; now cut down to 92 X 182 mm. with 13 long lines surviving.", "Comments":"Written probably in Ireland.", "Thumbnail":"Accents over some monosyllables. Abbreviations include the typically Insular symbols. Script: pointed Insular minuscule or majuscule of a small type is used for the metrical examples from Virgil.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.8567, 2.3508", "ImageNotAvailable": "True" }, { "label":"37", "City":"Paris", "Library":"Bibliothèque Nationale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Nat. Lat. 12292 (fly-leaves).", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"5.642", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Commentarius Cuiusdam Scotti in Matthaeum (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Parts of two bifolia, numbered A,B,C,D, used as front fly-leaves, the proper order being A,D,C,B (the main MS, of 162 folios contains Florus, Alcuinus, Lupus de Ferrariis, Cassianus, etc., saec. IX2); now cut down to ca. 257 X ca. 195 mm. in 41-43 lines.", "Comments":"Written probably in Ireland. Provenance Corbie: the old ex-libris: 'Liber sancti Petri Corbeie' (saec. XII-XIII) stands on fol. 1. Later at St. Germain des Prés, where it was numbered '852, olim 623'. Came to the Bibliothèque Nationale during the Revolution.", "Thumbnail":"Punctuation: the main pause is marked by two points on the line, lesser pauses by a point. Omitted m is marked by a horizontal stroke over the vowel. Script is a square minuscule with few ligatures.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.8567, 2.3508", "ImageFileName": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.12292.-.Fol.Cv.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.12292.-.Fol.Cv.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Paris,.BnF.Lat.12292.-.Fol.Cv.jpg" }, { "label":"38", "City":"Paris", "Library":"Bibliothèque Nationale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Nat. Lat. Nouv. Acq. Lat. 1587.", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"5.684", "Origin":"Uncertain", "Script":"Insular Majuscule", "Contents":"Evangelia.", "Foliation":"Foll. 109; 304 X 240 mm. <250 X 195 mm.> in 27-29 long lines.", "Comments":"Origin uncertain: a Breton centre seems likely, but Cornwall or Wales are not to be excluded. The colophon on fol. 109 mentions Holcundus as the scribe's name. Provenance St. Gatien, Tours (No. 8 of the old catalogue). Stolen by Libri in 1842 (No. 14 of his collection). The entries on fol. 53 (Pippinus rix francorum') and on fol. 109 ('monasterii S. Zenonis maioris Veronae') were forged by Libri. Bought by Lord Ashburnham in 1847; acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1888.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a crude and rather awkward specimen of Celtic majuscule. On fol. 1 is the name UUARNERIUS in elongated letters saec. IX. In the lower margin of the last page (fol. 109) one reads the name Tinmocniam.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.8567, 2.3508", "ImageFileName": "Paris,.BnF.NAL.1587.-.Fol.109.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Paris,.BnF.NAL.1587.-.Fol.109.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Paris,.BnF.NAL.1587.-.Fol.109.jpg" }, { "label":"39", "City":"Colmar", "Library":"Bibliothèque Municipale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Municip. 444 (fly-leaf).", "Saec":"VIII2.", "CLAreference":"6.757", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Rituale (fragm.).", "Foliation":"One folio, used as front fly-leaf in an eleventh-century Missal of 268 folios written for Murbach (the present verso was originally the recto); cut down to 245 X 190 mm. in 18 or more long lines.", "Comments":"Written doubtless in Ireland. The surviving leaf was used as fly-leaf in a Missal written for a monastery at Murbach. Came to Colmar during the Revolution.", "Thumbnail":"Rather crude initials of Insular type employing the human figure, interlacing, and fancy dog motifs, coloured violet and pale red; small initials in bold black, surrounded by red dots and occasionally daubed with ochre. Script is bold, not very expert Irish majuscule. Scribbles by a fifteenth-century hand are seen on the verso.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"48.0817, 7.3556", "AdditionalImages": ["BM.Colmar.Ms.444r.-.Cliche.IRHT.jpg", "BM.Colmar.Ms.444v.-.Cliche.IRHT.jpg"], "ImageFileName": "BM.Colmar.Ms.444r.-.Cliche.IRHT.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "BM.Colmar.Ms.444r.-.Cliche.IRHT.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "BM.Colmar.Ms.444r.-.Cliche.IRHT.jpg" }, { "label":"40", "City":"St. Omer", "Library":"Bibliothèque Municipale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Municip. 279 (foll. 1-2).", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"6.827", "Origin":"Britain or Continental centre with Insular connections", "Script":"Insular Majuscule", "Contents":"Isidorus, Differentiae (II. 36-37, 39-40).", "Foliation":"One bifolium, used as fly-leaves in a tenth-century manuscript of 132 folios containing Hieronymus in Prophetas minores; now cut down to 245 X ca. 170 mm. in 26-29 long lines.", "Comments":"Written by a scribe of modest ability either in Britain or in a Continental centre with Insular connections. Provenance St. Bertin: a twelfth-century entry of fol. 132v reads: 'Liber S. Bertini'; the familiar XIV-XV-century ex-libris on fol. 3.", "Thumbnail":"Small crude initials, surrounded by red dots; capitals at beginning of sentences are daubed with red, now oxydized. Membranes prepared in the Insular manner. Script is a crude Insular majuscule by an inexpert and probably aged hand.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"50.7461, 2.2617", "ImageFileName": "Saint-Omer,.BASO,.ms..279,.f..2v.(1..jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Saint-Omer,.BASO,.ms..279,.f..2v.(1..jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Saint-Omer,.BASO,.ms..279,.f..2v.(1..jpg" }, { "label":"41", "City":"St. Omer", "Library":"Bibliothèque Municipale", "Shelfmark":"Bibl. Municip. 342 bis (fol. B).", "Saec":"VII-VIII.", "CLAreference":"6.828", "Origin":"Ireland/Wales", "Script":"Insular Majuscule and Minuscule", "Contents":"Glossae Super Amos (fragm.).", "Foliation":"One leaf, used as a fly-leaf and bound upside down in a manuscript of 106 folios (numbered A,B+104) containing a Lectionarium Missae and Passio S. Dionysii in Caroline minuscule saec. X; a series of Anglo-Saxon names is entered at the foot of fol. 104 in tenth-century script; no margins survive, and the text is now cut down to 277 X 190 mm. in 2 colums of at least 52 lines.", "Comments":"Written in Ireland or Wales. Provenance St. Bertin.", "Thumbnail":"Spelling shows frequent confusion of o and u and the usual Insular misuse of s and ss. No ornamentation; many passages being with a group of letters gradually diminishing in size - an Insular feature. Script is Insular majuscule and minuscule, passages often beginning with the higher and continuing with the lower script; at the foot of columns the scribe even drops into cursive minuscule. Celtic vernacular glosses occur.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"50.7461, 2.2617", "AdditionalImages": ["Saint-Omer,.BASO,.ms..342bis,.f..B.jpg", "Saint-Omer,.BASO,.ms..342bis,.f..Bv.jpg"], "ImageFileName": "Saint-Omer,.BASO,.ms..342bis,.f..B.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "Saint-Omer,.BASO,.ms..342bis,.f..B.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "Saint-Omer,.BASO,.ms..342bis,.f..B.jpg" }, { "label":"42", "City":"Basel", "Library":"Universitätsbibliothek", "Shelfmark":"F III 15 d.", "Saec":"VIII.", "CLAreference":"7.85", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Minuscule", "Contents":"Isidorus Iunior' (Consentius) de Vitiis; etc.", "Foliation":"Foll. 16 (fol. 8 is a mere slip); ca. 275 X ca. 235-240 mm. <235-245 X 180-205 mm.> in 2 columns of 34-47 lines.", "Comments":"Written apparently in Ireland, to judge from the character of the Insular symptoms. Belonged to Fulda; the typical Fulda press-mark 'VIII or. 14.' (saec. XV) is seen on the front cover. Acquired by Remigius Faesch (†1667), professor at Basel, ca. 1630.", "Thumbnail":"Script is a very expert, rapid, almost cursive Irish minuscule.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"47.566667, 7.6", "ImageFileName": "Basel.Universittsbibliothek.F.III.15c.Initialen.pdf", "ImageFileNameResized": "BaselFIII15c.Initialen.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "BaselFIII15c.Initialen.jpg" }, { "label":"43", "City":"St. Gall", "Library":"Stiftsbibliothek", "Shelfmark":"51", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"7.901", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Evangelia IV.", "Foliation":"Foll. 134, paginated 1-268 (pp. 239/240, originally part of a bifolium, are palimpsest, with the primary script now illegible though showing traces of a Calendar in Irish majuscule saec. VIII); 295 X 215-220 mm. <220-250 X 155-165 mm.) in 24 or 25 long lines.", "Comments":"Written presumably in Ireland. The manuscript is not mentioned in the St. Gall list of 'Libri Scottice scripti' drawn up in the middle of the ninth century. The entry libri scripti galli (saec. XIII) stands on p.1.", "Thumbnail":"Ornamentation consists of 12 full-page miniatures and groups of initials in the Irish style and of numerous smaller initials (all now beautifully illustrated); colours used are red, blue, yellow, violet, olive in various shades; the capitals at the beginning of sentences are daubed with red and yellow; initials are here and there followed by large letters gradually diminishing to normal size. Vellum is thick and greasy. Ink black. Script is an angular somewhat compressed Irish majuscule.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"47.416667, 9.366667", "SourceWork": "http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0051/7/medium", "ImageFileName": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..51.folio.7.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..51.folio.7.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..51.folio.7.jpg" }, { "label":"44", "City":"St. Gall", "Library":"Stiftsbibliothek", "Shelfmark":"60", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"7.902", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Majuscule and Minuscule", "Contents":"Evangelium Iohannis.", "Foliation":"Foll. 34, paginated 3-70 (pp. 1/2 and 71-73 are paper fly-leaves); ca. 265 X ca. 185 mm. < 210 X 140-147 mm.> in 26 long lines.", "Comments":"Written apparently in Ireland. The Manuscript is mentioned among the 'Libri Scottice scripti' in the St. Gall catalogue of about the middle of the ninth century. A sixteenth-century St. Gall ex-libris is seen on p.5.", "Thumbnail":"p. 5 has the Insular initials I N P followed first by capitals and then by a line of text in Irish majuscule daubed with red and yellow and surrounded by red dots; the page-length initial I serves as one side of the ornamental frame enclosing the page ; small capitals at the beginning of sentences are daubed with red or surrounded by red dots; capitals are often followed by large letters gradually diminishing to normal size. Membranes are vellum of the Insular type and of poor quality. Ink black. Script is either Irish majuscule in transition, in part roundish (p. 27, etc.), in part angular, compressed, and verging on minuscule, or plain Irish minuscule (p. 21)", "GeographicalCoordinates":"47.416667, 9.366667", "SourceWork": "http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0060/5/medium", "ImageFileName": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..60.folio.5.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..60.folio.5.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..60.folio.5.jpg" }, { "label":"45", "City":"St. Gall", "Library":"Stiftsbibliothek", "Shelfmark":"1394 (pp.95-98).", "Saec":"VIII-IX.", "CLAreference":"7.979", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Majuscule and Minuscule", "Contents":"Missale (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Two folios forming a bifolium, paginated 95-98 in a miscellany of fragments; present size ca. 230 X 220-230 mm. in 20 long lines.", "Comments":"Written doubtless in Ireland. Used as early as the fifteenth century as a jacket for a manuscript of Boethius; the entry 'Boethius 15. I de sancta trinitate' (saec. XV) is seen in the margin of p. 104.", "Thumbnail":"Accents over monosyllables and some long syllables (eís, dicéns). Spelling shows Insular peculiarities: 'gabrehel', 'ingresus', 'possita', 'offici' but 'hiís'. Script is a roundish Irish majuscule by a not very expert scribe.", "GeographicalCoordinates":"47.416667, 9.366667", "SourceWork": "http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/1394/102/medium", "ImageFileName": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..1394.folio.102.jpg", "ImageFileNameResized": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..1394.folio.102.jpg", "ImageFileNameThumb": "St..Gallen,.Stiftsbibliothek,.Cod..Sang..1394.folio.102.jpg" }, { "label":"47", "City":"St. Gall", "Library":"Stiftsbibliothek", "Shelfmark":"1395 (pp. [418/419?], 422/423, 426/427).", "Saec":"VIII2.", "CLAreference":"7.988", "Origin":"Ireland", "Script":"Irish Majuscule", "Contents":"Litania (fragm.).", "Foliation":"Three folios, paginated as above in a miscellany of fragments, with pp. 418/419 apparently belonging to a different manuscript (only p. 427 has our script on it; pp. 418, 422, and 426 have full-page decorations; pp. 419 and 423 were originally left blank); ca. 225 X 170-180 mm.