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British Library, Harley 1775 is a Gospel Book produced in Italy during the last quarter of the 6th Century . The text is in Latin and is a mixture of the Vulgate and Old Latin translations. This text is called "source Z" in critical studies of the Latin New Testament . It is written in an Uncial text with the running titles written in Rustic Capitals . The manuscript has enlarged initials and the opening lines of major text divisions are written in red. There are contemporary corrections in slanting uncial script which employ a Greek syllabification similar to that used by Victor Of Capua . There are 468 Vellum folios that are 177 by 120 mm. The text is written in a single column of 130 by 85 mm. Each Gospel is started on a new Quire . The quires are numbered so as to aid in the assembly of the Codex . The manuscript's decoration includes eighteen Canon Table s under architectural arcades, display capitals, and a colophon decoration. There is a nineteenth canon table that is more simply decorated. On folio 11 there are Tironian Notes in a 9th Century French hand. The manuscript was owned by Cardinal Mazarin (d. 1668 ). In the early 18th Cemtury it was in the French Royal Library . It was stolen along with several other manuscripts in 1707 by Jean Aymon . It was purchased in Holland by Robert Harley , 1st Earl of Oxford (d. 1724). It was sold by the widow of Edward Harley , 2nd Earl of Oxford and their daughter to Parliament as part of the Harleian Collection which was one the founding collections of the British Museum . EXTERNAL LINK FURTHER READING
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