Volume / Number: 9 / 1408

• Würzburg Germany Universitätsbibliothek M. P. Th. F. 28

Written in a German centre where Anglo-Saxon influence was still alive, presumably in Bavaria, to judge by the script, textual tradition, and the German glosses. The traditional connection with St Burghard (†ca. 754) dates from the eighteenth century and is palaeographically untenable. Belonged to the Würzburg Cathedral Library where it bore the numbers ‘XXXIII’ and ‘35’.

Script is pre-Caroline minuscule by several hands: a has two forms; d is often connected by a tag with following l, o, s, u; Insular Ᵹ occurs on fol. 92; the shoulder of r often sweeps boldly upwards; majuscule S is frequent; other majuscule letters are particularly numerous on fol. 29r–v. The name ‘Godinos’ or ‘Godinus’ (saec. VIII ex.) is seen on foll. 3 and 46; probationes pennae saec. VIII–IX on fol. 99v. Old High German glosses saec. IX by more than one hand, the oldest group being in Bavarian dialect.

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