Luxeuil fragment.

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1. recto: “ ||terram babylonis ... [cap]ta est ciuitas eius ||” [col. a]. “ ||teneritudine mea ... Et erit baby- lon in tumulos ||” [col. b]. verso: “ || Quomodo capta est sesach ... per eam filius hominis ||” [col. a]. “ || Et post hunc annu[m] ... quæ in eis sunt||” [col. b].

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Title from printed catalog.
The present fragment is from a Lectionary of major and minor prophets (Isaiah to Malachi), which was written in the Script of Luxeuil by at least 5 scribes. At least 15 fragments from this manuscript, reused in bindings at Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, have survived.
Script: Script of Luxeuil. Written in the pre-Carolingian minuscule associated with the Abbey of Luxeuil.
Decoration: First letter or syllable of each verse in large hollow capitals, some incorporating stylized fish, filled with yellow and/or orange.

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Garrett MS. 172 is an early 8th-century fragment written at the Abbey of Luxeuil (Department of Haute-Saône, Franche-Comté, Diocese of Besançon), founded in ca. 585 by the Irish monk St. Columbanus, or possibly written at one of its affiliated houses. The original codex, perhaps around 245 leaves in quaternions, appears to have been broken up for binding at the Benedictine Abbey of Admont in Austria (founded 1074), apparently by the 12th century. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript leaf in 1936. While the source of Robert Garrett's leaf is not firmly recorded, it is probably one of the leaves acquired by Goldschmidt. When Garrett donated his collection to the Princeton University Library in 1942, the fragment was not included in itemized lists of the Garrett collection. It was found among related material in 1951 and was assigned its current shelf number in 1980.

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Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 392-394.

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