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• Cambridge United Kingdom Corpus Christi College 173 (foll. 59–83)

Written in England, probably in a Kentish centre. Earliest known connexion is with Winchester: the entry FRIĐESTAN is found at the top of fol. 57; this is doubtless Frithestan, Bishop of Winchester (910–31), whose name is marked by a cross in the Chronicle on fol. 20v, where the entry about his episcopacy is distinguished by a red frame. Later at Christ Church, Canterbury (No. 311 in Prior Eastry’s catalogue). Belonged to Archbishop Parker (†1575), who bequeathed it to Corpus Christi College.

Script is a rapid Anglo-Saxon minuscule: g in ligature has the form of an elongated S; e occasionally has the lower bow reversed and is 8-shaped (see CLA 2.149, 152, 270); t here and there has the sweeping cross-stroke extending over the preceding letter; the ligature fi resembles minuscule ꞅ with a sinuous stroke crossing the top; all of these features are found in London Cotton Cleopatra A. III* (CLA 2.184); the si ligature resembles the usual fi form; the st ligature is common, as in Italian and Continental schools. Anglo-Saxon majuscule, recalling London Egerton 1046, foll. 17–31 (CLA 2.194b), is used for the opening page of the work (fol. 59), the letters N, R, and S having both uncial and minuscule forms. Numerous glosses added: some in Anglo-Saxon scratched in interlineally with a sharp point, others in ordinary minuscule. An Anglo-Saxon hand saec. IX inserted the name aelbold on fol. 75.

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