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DescriptionMerov.jpg	8th-century Merovingian script sample. In 2007, the uploader seems to have taken this image from Diane Tillotson's website (site defunct in 2020), who described this image as "Merovingian book script from an 8th century Evangelary (Autun, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 3)", while citing F. Steffens' Lateinische Paläographie (1929). Another uploading of the same image could be found here (same site). The text comes from the beginning of an evangelary conserved at Autun. According to Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes: Revue d'érudition, consacrée spécialement à l'étude du moyen-âge, 29e année, tome 4ème, sixième série (1868, Paris: Librairie A. Franck), page 217 (Google Books), this manuscript (no. 3 in the "1849 catalogue") is valuable as it is a rare pre-11th century work with a stated precise year of composition, 754, which is useful as a paleographic sample of a specific time, even if the monastery of composition is unknown. The manuscript shows hand styles used just before the significant Carolingian reforms of the late 8th century. amore accinsa hoc opus optjmum jn ho- nore sancti johannis et sanctae mariae matris domini nostri ihesu χρι(christi), patrare rogauit deuota ego hacse inperitus gundohinus, poscen[te fulculfo monacho, ...]
Date	31 March 2006 (original upload date)
Source	Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.
Author	The original uploader was Judgesurreal777 at English Wikipedia.

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2006-03-31 21:40 Judgesurreal777 285×113×8 (7502 bytes) {{PD-ineligible}}

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	04:54, 2 November 2020		724 × 299 (71 KB)	Ser be etre shi	Much better definition, from the same source as before (Steffens's book from 1929).
	14:03, 5 June 2007		285 × 113 (7 KB)	GJo	{{Information \|Description=''no original description'' \|Source=Originally from [http://en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia]; description page is/was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3AMerov.jpg here]. \|Date=2006-03-31 (original upload date) \|Aut