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priscian_b1f04
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Date Information
circa 1050
Original Collection
Priscian Fragment Collection. Archives and Special Collections. University of Mississippi.
Original Format
vellum (parchment); fragments (object portions); illuminated manuscripts; glosses (annotations); manuscripts (documents)
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Relational Format
archival material
Comments
Text in Latin. This fragment contains quotations from Lucilius, Persius, Virgil, Plautus, Naevius, Ennius, Livy, and Ovid. Contain part of Priscian's Institutes, inscribed about A.D. 1050, in the time of William the Conqueror. The handwriting is a fine Carolingian minuscule. The holes in the parchment are original- note that the scribe carefully wrote around them.