Came across this unusual layout today: a manuscript with 6 columns, while 2-3 is the norm. Like here, such books heavy on columns usually contain word lists, dictionaries, or concordances - so: short lines.

There is ample marginal space still, the scribe did not even sweat it. Equally unusual are the dimensions: 255 mm tall, much, much smaller than the norm.

Bern, BB, A.92.6 (10th cent.). Digital: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bbb/A0092-06

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