16 [29.] For the pertinent literature on the manuscripts in the following list the student is referred to Traube’s Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen, Vol. I, pp. 171-261, Munich 1909, and the index in Vol. III, Munich 1920. The chief works of facsimiles referred to below are: Zangemeister and Wattenbach, Exempla codicum latinorum litteris maiusculis scriptorum, Heidelberg 1876 & 1879; E. Chatelain, Paléographie des classiques latins, Paris 1884-1900, and Uncialis scriptura codicum latinorum novis exemplis illustrata, Paris 1901-2; and Steffens, Lateinische Paläographie2, Treves 1907. (Second edition in French appeared in 1910.)
19 [30.] In later uncials the fore-stroke is often a horizontal hair-line.
21 [31.] This supposition will be strengthened by Professor Rand; see [p. 53.]
[32.] Compare, for example, the facsimile of a French deed of sale at Roye, November 24, 1433, reproduced in Recueil de Fac-similés à l’usage de l’école des chartes. Premier fascicule (Paris 1880), No. 1.
[33.] No mention of either of these is to be found in Dom Toussaints du Plessis’ Histoire de l’église de Meaux. For documents with similar opening formulas, see ibid. vol. ii (Paris 1731), pp. 191, 258, 269, 273.
[TRANSCRIPTION]*
* The original manuscript is in scriptura continua. For the reader’s convenience, words have been separated and punctuation added in the transcription.
In a few places the transcribers used V in place of U. This appears to be an error, but has not been changed.