Soc., pl. 42, 43).
_Rustic_.
The Second Vatican Vergil, No. 3867 (Wailly, pl. 2), called the
"Codex Romanus."
SIXTH CENTURY.
_Rustic_ and _Uncial_.
The Montamiata Bible (Birch, 35; Wailly, pl. 2, 4).
_Rustic_ and _Minuscule_.
The Cambridge Gospels (Westwood, _Pal?ograph. Sacra Pictoria_, pl. 45).
_Uncials_.
Gospels in Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 5463.
Paris Lib., Gregory of Tours (Silvestre, pl. 86).
Vienna Imp. Lib., Livy (Silvestre, pl. 75).
Brit. Mus., Harl. 1775 (Pal?ograph. Soc., pl. 16).
SEVENTH CENTURY.
_Uncials_ and _Minuscule_.
The St. Chad's Gospels in library of Lichfield Cathedral (Pal?ograph.
Soc., pl. 20, 21, 35).
NINTH CENTURY.
_Capitals_ and _Minuscules_.
Paris Lib., Bible of Charles the Bald.
There is scarcely anything more difficult to judge than the true age of
square capital MSS. or of pure uncials. Even the rustic capitals, like
the first Vatican Vergil, No. 3225, are extremely rare. The letters in
this MS. are about three-sixteenths of an inch high.
TEXTS IN USE IN WESTERN EUROPE BEFORE THE AGE OF CHARLEMAGNE.
_Lombardic._ The national hand of Italy. Founded on the old Roman
cursive, it does not attain to any great beauty until the tenth or
eleventh century.
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