Thank you, Alex! I
had written to the same effect, but then I was aware that I couldn't date the cursive that I
had in mind (and I ought to have remembered that there is some of it in some of the political scribbles from Pompeii's wall). So I cancelled what I
had written. I knew for Early
Medieval: VERBVM, VENEREM and uerbum, uenerem, which is why the OUP NT, Vulgate, prints it that way.
Pat L.