Vatican MS. Vat. Ebr. 283 unit 9

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican, Vatican)

Vatican MS. Vat. Ebr. 283 Main Scribe 3 – Beinoni

Scribe not identified

Main text scribe

• Byzantine
• Italian

Non-square (Beinoni)

Current

Bookhand

Thanks to Dr. Roberta Tonnarelli who helped to identify the possible origin of the script as such:

General aspect is italian, but there are some byzantine elements such vertical serif, pe sofit, tav, curved ghimel.

• Attached to the headline
• Attached to the baseline

Stable

Higher than the height of the line of writing

• Stable
• Smaller than the width of an average he

Variable

Quick

Nesting

Square

• Ascenders are longer than the height of the average letter
• Descenders are longer than the height of the average letter

• Downstrokes are parallel
• Horizontal strokes are parallel
• Ascenders are parallel to the downstrokes
• Descenders are parallel to the downstrokes
• Ascenders are parallel among them
• Descenders are parallel among them

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