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Foroiuliense Evangelary

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Early 6th century; parchment; mm 300 × 255; ff. III, 270, III’.
Cividale del Friuli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Archivi e Biblioteca, codex CXXXVIII.

An extraordinary book for its antiquity and its history that can be full-rightly considered somewhat an emblem of patriarchal Friuli.

Country of locationItaly

LocationCividale del Friuli

Library / CollectionMuseo Archeologico Nazionale, Archivi e Biblioteca

ShelfmarkCXXXVIII

LanguagesLatin

Support materialParchment

Extentff. III, 270, III’

Formatmm 300 × 255

AgeEarly 6th century

ff. 98v-99r; between these two folia the gatherings of the Gospel of Mark were originally kept, which were afterwards extrapolated; the right column on f. 98v is covered by liturgical notes and some of the 1500 personal names written between the ninth and the tenth century.

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1. The Foroiuliense Evangeliarium