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Excerpt from A Manuscript of Jerome's De Viris Illustribus Belonging to the General Theological Seminary in New York
The ms. Itself bears no date. It is carefully written in a Clear minus cule hand of the post-caroline period. The letters are full and round and show no trace of rigidity or angularity. The form of the letters and the general character of the writing indicate that Q was written towards the end of the rath century. Other palaeographical matters of detail, such as the abbreviations and contractions used, the fre quent joining of the preposition to the word governed by it, e without the cedilla for de and oe, i with a stroke over it in places where no con fusion with other letters could arise, accord with this view of the date. The script of Q is very beautiful and compares favorably with some of the handsomest writing of the Middle Ages.4 The letters are round and graceful in the Italian style, and the codex may have been written in Italy or southern France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
