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another 1 the North-French az-type ', another 1 the Laon type '.
How is the unfortunate reader to know that all three are
writing about one and the same thing? Palaeography will
never progress unless we are loyal to nomenclature.
To return from this digression, I would try to excuse
the inexcusable eror in my Notae Latinae (p. 479, etc.) " Farfa
in Umbria ", instead of " Farfa near Rome", by the plea
that I was misled by Chevalier's " Farfa, pres Spolete (Om-
brie), abbaye de B^nddictins fondle VI0. s., restaur. 715 ".
The librarian of the Vallicelliana, to which library belong
the MSS. represented in the three plates (pi. xiii, pi. xiy, pi. xv)
which accompany this article, tells me that nothing is known
of the provenance of the first MS. (Vallicell. B 10 Bible; but
foil. 1-95 shew a different minuscule), and that Trisulti has
been tentatively named for the second (Vallicell. B 23 Missal).
The third (Vallicell. B 24; but foil. 118-200 are a later addi-
tion) is the famous Subiaco Missal of the year 1075. (Subiaco
is about 25 miles East of Rome).
South Italian script has received full treatment in Loew
'Beneventan Script' (Oxford, 1914); to which Novak 'Scriptura
Beneventana' (Zagreb, 1920) makes a useful supplement, trac-
ing the spread of the Beneventan type in the regions East
of the Adriatic. But neither Lowe nor Novak tell us much
about the ordinary minuscule which competed there (and in
the Southern half of the Italian peninsula) with the Beneventan.
Did the Farfa type (like the Beneventan) cross the sea? The
question has some interest for classical scholars. For our
one and only MS. (now at Naples) of Festus ' de Verborum
significatu ' has the Farfa-type and was, according to one of
its earliest editors, 'liber advectus, ut ferunt, exlllyrico'. (It
has been reproduced in facsimile by Thewrewk de Ponor,
Budapest, 1893). In Class. Quart. X "[1916] 106 I adduce evi-
dence of a MS. of Festus at Ceneda in N. Italy when Grausus
was bishop there (c 1000 A. D.).
Will not some Italian palaeographer provide us with a
book on Central Italian script (or scripts) like Lowe's book?
The first thing to be done is to collect as full a list of Farfa-
type MSS. as Lowe collected of MSS. in Beneventan minu-
scule. That, I repeat, is the purpose of these three plates,
W. M. Lindsay
another 1 the North-French az-type ', another 1 the Laon type '.
How is the unfortunate reader to know that all three are
writing about one and the same thing? Palaeography will
never progress unless we are loyal to nomenclature.
To return from this digression, I would try to excuse
the inexcusable eror in my Notae Latinae (p. 479, etc.) " Farfa
in Umbria ", instead of " Farfa near Rome", by the plea
that I was misled by Chevalier's " Farfa, pres Spolete (Om-
brie), abbaye de B^nddictins fondle VI0. s., restaur. 715 ".
The librarian of the Vallicelliana, to which library belong
the MSS. represented in the three plates (pi. xiii, pi. xiy, pi. xv)
which accompany this article, tells me that nothing is known
of the provenance of the first MS. (Vallicell. B 10 Bible; but
foil. 1-95 shew a different minuscule), and that Trisulti has
been tentatively named for the second (Vallicell. B 23 Missal).
The third (Vallicell. B 24; but foil. 118-200 are a later addi-
tion) is the famous Subiaco Missal of the year 1075. (Subiaco
is about 25 miles East of Rome).
South Italian script has received full treatment in Loew
'Beneventan Script' (Oxford, 1914); to which Novak 'Scriptura
Beneventana' (Zagreb, 1920) makes a useful supplement, trac-
ing the spread of the Beneventan type in the regions East
of the Adriatic. But neither Lowe nor Novak tell us much
about the ordinary minuscule which competed there (and in
the Southern half of the Italian peninsula) with the Beneventan.
Did the Farfa type (like the Beneventan) cross the sea? The
question has some interest for classical scholars. For our
one and only MS. (now at Naples) of Festus ' de Verborum
significatu ' has the Farfa-type and was, according to one of
its earliest editors, 'liber advectus, ut ferunt, exlllyrico'. (It
has been reproduced in facsimile by Thewrewk de Ponor,
Budapest, 1893). In Class. Quart. X "[1916] 106 I adduce evi-
dence of a MS. of Festus at Ceneda in N. Italy when Grausus
was bishop there (c 1000 A. D.).
Will not some Italian palaeographer provide us with a
book on Central Italian script (or scripts) like Lowe's book?
The first thing to be done is to collect as full a list of Farfa-
type MSS. as Lowe collected of MSS. in Beneventan minu-
scule. That, I repeat, is the purpose of these three plates,