oa Um fragmento de Differentiae uerborum,em letra carolina

In the binding of a municipal charter (a ≪Foral≫) kept in the National Archives of Portugal (Lisboa, IAN/TT, CF, Forais 26 - Lorvao 2: Foral de Couto de Rio d’Asnos), we have found two folios in a Carolingian script, whose text documents a large part of the ≪Differentiae uerborum≫, very similar to the Differentiae Montepessulanae published by I. W. Beck, in 1883 from a manuscript in Montpellier, École Méd. H 306, fl. 36a-58b. The handwriting of a Carolingian style that can be dated in the IX century. Nevertheless, the manuscript could not have been brought to Iberia before 1080, when the Cluniae monks arrived. As the folios were employed as guards leaves in a binding of the XVI century (the ≪Foral≫ is dated from 1514), we can suppose that the original manuscript was kept at an institution near the Royal Court and was discarded at that time, as the new books of grammar were being introduced.